Free Email
Providers
Some free email service providers
have some pretty good blockers’ services to accommodate
you a bit better. My favorite is the free version of
Hotmail provided by msn. Don’t get me wrong, plenty of
the free email service providers are trying to get on top
of the spam epidemic.
With this free email service, you can
set up your account to keep only your personal contacts
in your email inbox. The rest of the emails automatically
go to a junk mail folder that you can check out at your
own time. If you don’t check them within seven days, they
are automatically deleted.
The msn messenger, which is used to
send instant messages to people, can be checked by right
clicking the messenger icon. If you have received email
from your contacts it will show you and you can go
directly to your inbox by left clicking the messages
text. If you have junk mail it doesn’t show up. It is
perfect.
Of course your junk mail section can
still receive spam, but now it is at your own leisure
that you check them out. Yahoo has a similar system, but
with the Yahoo messenger instead. This method is not fool
proof, but it is still pretty good if you don’t want to
spend the extra money for new software.
Free email providers like Yahoo and
MSN are very good providers because they are very intent
on keeping spam out of your inbox. They are just as
interested in protecting your account as you are because
they want you to use them as your primary email address.
Yahoo even has its very own site for you to look up that
includes information about spam. To get this information
see http://www.yahoo.com/spam
Most of the free email service
providers have similar filters as MSN. They let you
control the accepted content, which is exactly what I
would advise you to have. They let you decide which mail
to let through. MSN Hotmail is currently allowing you to
combine the filtering system with a mail washer in their
free version. This is how they plan to help you protect
yourself from viruses and such; which is great for a free
service.
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