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Set up a dummy web based e-mail account such as Hotmail and use this address as a scrap bucket if you can't avoid providing an e-mail address. Organisations such as Hotmail routinely clear out dead messages to save space which means once you have set up your dummy account you can forget about it. Blocking Unsolicited Mail In Microsoft Outlook Express Once you have received an unsolicited mail into your inbox select it by clicking on it once.
Move pointer to MESSAGE menu option on top menu bar Select BLOCK SENDER This action adds senders address to a growing list of blocked senders. Each time a mail is received from any of those in blocked list mail is moved automatically to DELETED ITEMS folder and does not appear in INBOX. Blocking Unsolicited Mail In Microsoft Outlook 2000/2002/XP Use RULES WIZARD within TOOLS menu to create a rule to send any mail suspected of being Junk Senders to DELETED ITEMS folder.
When an unsolicited e-mail arrives in your Inbox then select it by RIGHT clicking on it once and choose to add it to junk senders list.
Delete mail manually from your Inbox The next time a mail arrives from same source it will be moved automatically to DELETED ITEMS folder. As list grows amount of junk mail in your Inbox will diminish.
There may be light at end of Spam tunnel. Uncle Bill at Microsoft is known to have 'a thing' about Spam and is determined to kill it off. Governments too are looking for better ways to reduce this nuisance.
Steve Latimer is Systems Manager with Arrival Computers (http://www.arrival-computers.co.uk). PC Doctor+ Guides are aimed at users new to computing. They may be reproduced and included in web sites as additional content provided a link is added back to the Arrival Computers Web Site.