Bob.dial{at}gte.net said to Photo at 04-28-04  20:51
 Subject: Re: Hello

 Bo> I suspect Bob Gearhart or Karen can supply you with the ones they
 Bo> frequent. I get way too much junk mail from participation on Yahoo so
 Bo> it's normally blocked in my mailer.  If the site moves to some other
 Bo> venue I might be able to enjoy it more.

 Hi there guys.

 What I've found out about Yahoo and junk mail.

 I have a yahoo id, give it to everyone. qsabe{at}yahoo.com and
 if it shows up in some spammers mailbox, I don't care.  Yahoo
 does a good job of separating my real mail from the junk.
 When I go to read my Yahoo mail on-line I have from fifty to
 a couple hundred spam's, junks mails, all sorted out and in
 the junk mail folder.  The few I get that aren't sorted out
 as junk mail are usually just junk mail too, so I click the
 spam button and Yahoo adds those names to it's junk mail filters.

 The thing is, that's mail that comes in to my Yahoo mailbox.
 I don't use that mailbox for anything but those web sites
 that demand you give them an e-mail address before you can
 join the group.  Those sites that say, OK we will e-mail you
 your password.  They go to Yahoo mail, I pick it up and carry
 on.

 However Yahoo is so good at sorting the junk mail into their
 their junk mail mailbox, that I also give that address to
 companies who I might want to contact years from now.  The ISP
 I'm using just might anger me, which makes them history and I
 start with a new address from someone else.  I've had the Yahoo
 address ever since getting on the web.  I've been through a
 half dozen ISP's in that time, but Yahoo is always there.

 I sent my video camera off to have some work done on the Mack
 extended warrantee, and Mack got the Yahoo address, I like it
 that much.  By the way, I will say something about Mack, I
 couldn't be happier with the service I received.  I'm glad
 I bought the warrantee with the new camera.

 Back to Yahoo.  If you log in to Yahoo groups, you can read
 messages online, where it is ugly, or have the messages sent
 to another e-mail address.  If you use the Yahoo address,
 they will be intermingled with the spam and your other mail.
 Or you can have the messages sent as individual e-mails, one
 for each message to your ISP mailbox.  I was leery at first
 about getting spammed that way,  but so far, I've received
 none.  As for getting a bunch of stuff mixed in with your
 regular mail, the way to handle that is to create a separate
 folder just for that mail. One of mine is called Photogallery.

 Then create a filter to filter all your incoming mail looking
 for [Photogallery in the message subject line.  Set your
 filter up to move all messages that trigger from the inbox
 to the new folder, thus keeping everything separate.  You
 don't have to build that filter on your home mailbox, you
 could build it on the Yahoo or other online mailbox too, but
 It's easier for me on my ISP.

 Just go to the Yahoo groups and join a group.  Then set
 up your group mail options to send mail to your address.

 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PhotoGallery/ is where you
 would join the group.   Knock on wood, I'm getting no spam
 from the address given to Yahoo Groups.

 There are currently 190 folks in the PhotoGallery group
 1505 in the coolpix group so there is a lot of activity
 and most of the old gang is there.  Nothing can replace
 the intimacy of a small group like on Fido, but if you
 want to put a picture up and have a discussion about it,
 that's a nice place.

 And Fonix sill has space available for folks from the
 Photo Echo.   Good luck guys.

 Bob 4





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