The Viagra Falls

Olli Haavisto · Post by **Olli Haavisto** » 19 Oct 2000 4:17 am

Is there any way to stop the junk e-mail (spam?) from cluttering up my mailbox?
I`m getting tired of being offered "discrete deliveries of Viagra without a prescription" on a twice a week basis.
Also,could anyone recommend a website that deals with using computers in a way that a steel player can understand?After 3 years of hitting and missing I think it`s time to get the basics straight.

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Olli Haavisto
Polar steeler
Finland

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 19 Oct 2000 8:25 am

The junk e-mail (SPAM)is hard to get rid of. Some of the ISP's have filters that will trap quite a bit of it and there is software to filter it at the PC. However, I don't know of any way to completely eliminate it. Some of the Spammers use software that blindly sends it to a group of e-mail addresses. Some of the Spam is generated from your e-mail address that you may have given out when registering at some sites.

You could change your e-mail address and that will eliminate some, but not all of the Spam.

I don't know of any site that has basic PC instruction, however someone else may have something on that.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 19 Oct 2000 10:07 am

Also,could anyone recommend a website that deals with using computers in a way that a steel player can understand?

Sorry, but they haven't figured out a way to add knee levers to them yet.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 19 Oct 2000 6:05 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Is there any way to stop the junk e-mail (spam?) from cluttering up my mailbox?
I`m getting tired of being offered "discrete deliveries of Viagra without a prescription" on a twice a week basis<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Olli, I'll tell you how to stop the spam, if you tell me where to get Viagra twice a week without a prescription!

LeRoy Sawyer · Post by **LeRoy Sawyer** » 19 Oct 2000 6:36 pm

Olli,

Here is something that works for me. First find a web page for your "home page" that does not sponser any advertising. I use The Steel Guitar Forum for mine. Then put a link on your desktop to "temporary internet files" and each time you log off the internet go to your internet files and delete all of the cookies and links except for the ones that start with [url=http://www.b0b-----.]www.b0b-----.[/url] You will then eliminate all cookie links to your computer each time you go back on line. I have not had a spam in my mailbox in months. I hope this works for you.

LeRoy
"I Steel Stuff"

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 20 Oct 2000 2:34 am

The cookies will not stop SPAM. Although there are "good" cookies and "bad" cookies, they have nothing to do with SPAM.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 20 Oct 2000 8:16 am

You only get the Viagra spam twice a week? Lately I've been getting it twice a DAY!

Kenny Dail · Post by **Kenny Dail** » 20 Oct 2000 5:24 pm

I suffer from the same "SPAM" problem. BTW, I understood it was illegal for them to send spam. confused:

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kd...and the beat goes on...

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 20 Oct 2000 6:08 pm

Lately I've been getting it twice a DAY!

You're a better man than I am, b0b!

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 20 Oct 2000 9:24 pm

Well, I didn't get any last night...

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 21 Oct 2000 5:13 am

Now I'm really hurt.

I never get any Viagra mail, and I could use it!

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 21 Oct 2000 5:19 am

Jim, that's just because they're still working on your background check.

Kenny Dail · Post by **Kenny Dail** » 21 Oct 2000 11:18 am

At this time I don't have a need for Viagra. I feel that I should make sure I have a solution to the problem before I subscribe to this product. At my age, "Auto-eroticism" is not a viable solution. LOL

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kd...and the beat goes on...

Ricky Davis · Post by **Ricky Davis** » 21 Oct 2000 11:35 pm

Don't open the mail and it will go away. I've noticed when I open a spam; I seem to continue on their mailing list. I quit opening anything that even looked like an advertisement; and I don't hardly get any at all.
Ricky

erik · Post by **erik** » 22 Oct 2000 12:30 am

Olli would like to take a Finnish hammer to that SPAM.