Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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I agree with most of your post except the bolded. If you are on a secure connection to a website via https, no one is snooping on your link even on an open wifi connection. Gmail, every bank, and in fact every real website uses security certificates. Could they use wireshark and read the packet header to see what site the https request goes to? Sure. Not much they can do with that information. It's just encrypted garbage after that point. |
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I just got up at 9:30 and just for fun while having coffee I counted my junk mail there were 137 and 9 in my Gmail I knocked the 9 out of my Gmail then thrashed all the junk mail with one stroke , maybe took all of 5 seconds, people see a problem , where there is no problem FYI if by chance a legitimate email was in that mess so be it , it couldn’t have been very important because I didn’t miss anything I should have received
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Only mail i get nowadays is junk mail
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If you buy your own domain name through a low-cost registrar like Namecheap, you can get inexpensive email from them that includes a very powerful spam filter at their server level, so it never reaches you. Then you can log in to their server and exclude all the additional sender addresses you want to and those will never reach your desktop email either. You will need Outlook or a similar desktop (“client”) program to download your email to your desktop. And you will have your own domain name forever as long as you pay the monthly fee. For example, if your name is Sally Smith you could buy a domain name like Smith-Florida.com and set Sally@Smith-Florida.com as your email address and get very little spam even if you mistakenly gave your email address to a spammer. My email address has been published on my website for over 20 years, and when I was working my site had many pages and got around 200 visitors per day, but using my domain name email, I get almost no spam and never have.
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Exactly
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some email will automatically delete spam files after 'x' amount of days. i think you may be able to control how many days
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For instance, you could set up banking@your_domain.com and use that one for your various banking and brokerage accounts, shopping@your_domain.com for retail accounts, etc. If one of them started to show up on a large amount of spam you could delete it and create a new one for those accounts (i.e. bankaccts@your_domain.com) That way you won't have to change your email account info on too many online accounts at a time. OR you can just skim the messages in your junk folder once a day to make sure nothing legitimate is in there and then delete them all. As Charlie said, it only takes a few seconds. k. |
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