Will do, matey!!!

Thanks so much

Melody

First I went (by myself) to the Verizon home page and looked up my account and went to my emal and clicked on options and block senders, etc. and it only allows me to block an e-mail.

Since all these people (who send me stuff on China Fruit Corporation), well, they never use the same e-mail address, and I kept looking to see if there was an option that would allow me to stop getting e-mail from people who have the word "foreclosure", or "survey" or "free gift", in the subject matter, well it does not indicate this.

So I called up verizon dsl technical support and she tried by remote to see ho we could do this but she admitted that there is no way.

I can only block emails by indicating an e-mail address. I told her that they use different e-mail addresses and isn't there a way I can block by subject matter or certain words and she said "no, it doesn't work that way".

So I'm screwed.

So unless you know how I can block e-mails by subject matter or by certain words, I guess I'll keep hitting the delete button.

But really, THERE HAS TO BE A WAY TO NOT GET AN E-MAIL WITH THE SUBJECT MATTER "FORECLOSURE" IN IT, right?????

Thanks,
Mel

hmm - well if verizon can't help - i would have thought they could.

I use the McAfee total protection software,
and I also use the Outlook Express settings and set it to divert any stuff like that that gets thru.

when you get one of those messages highlight it and then go up to the message section up top and go down to
create rule from message

then follow the steps to do that.
you can set it to send those straight to junk or trash folder.

REALLY????

I LOVE YOU!!!!


will try.


melody

well I just got a china fruit spam too - what I said earlier doesn't work because it is a image - at least the one I got is.

-like Salvator mentioned {Many of the SPAMers are using graphics based messages instead of text based messages and graphics is almost impossible to filter.}

the china fruit co part is in a color/tinted box, and the rest of the message is about the weather.

sooo - i guess all we can do is just delete them ourselves.
unless someone else has a idea.

ok...the bad monkey hasn't read the entire thread.

but don;t you have a "report spam" button with your email?

i never open emails from anyone i don;t know. i hit the repost spam button. my isp will block all emails from those carriers if they get enough reports.

i also have "keywords" that i can enter and it blocks all those.

good luck melody. i know spam emails can be a pain and you never know if they have a virus.

Guess what I did!!!

I followed the rules give to me about the "create a new rule" or something like that and I put in keywords etc. etc. and from now on (if this thing works) I won't be getting anything with China Fruit Company, or anything about mortgages, or refinancing.

And I learned how to bounce. The mailwasher people replied to my email and told me how to re-set the options so now I can bounce.

So I guess all I can say is thank you so much to all of you who have shown me how to CONQUER SPAM!!!!!!

At least untl Spam conquers us!!!!!!

lol

thanks much

Melody

I woke up, walked over to the computer and there are three green lights and ONE RED LIGHT where it says INTERNET, on my modem.

I go to myself UH OH!!!!

I start my computer, everything is working fine, I click on "internet explorer" and the software loads up but THERE IS NO INTERNET CONNECTION.
The light that is always green is now clear. NO RED, NO GREEN, NO COLOR.

I knew immediately I had no signal going through.

I call Verizon and listen to a message that "there was an outage in parts of New York, but that it is all fixed now". I look at my computer and go "oh really? I don't think so"

I call up Verizon and tell the tech guy what's happening and he goes. No, New York is running just fine". I go "so what is happening to my dsl line".

He has me put in all sorts of addresses in the url place. He has me go to start, run, typing in this and that. NOTHING WORKED. I'm going, oh my god, my modem broke or New York Is down, etc. etc.

Then I tell him "Oh, I recently changed my password to my verizon account (about 2 days ago). He goes "that's it"!!!

I said "what's it"??? this was 2 days ago and I've been accessing my mail, etc. going online". He goes, Believe me, that's it", when a person resets their verizon account password, they have to reset their modem".

I had no idea what he is talking about. So he walks me through all these steps. Then (and this is the important part because nothing was working, he had me hold down the control key (that was blocking the pop up stuff) and finally a MODEM SET UP WIZARD comes up on the screen.

This whole thing from beginning to end took one hour. I was so excited to see the green light come back on, I can't tell you.


Then I go to mailwasher pro AND IT DOESN'T WORK. Took me one minute to figure out I had to go to accounts, put my new password in, ETC. ETC.

All I can say is 'WHEW"!!!!!

I may be getting old but I CAN STILL LEARN AND DO STUFF!!!!




mel

yeah for you your learning it !!

- I thought they would have you reset your dsl modem.
to do that you turn it off for 30-60 seconds and sometimes turn computer off too.
then start it all back up

i do this when internet connections seems to be dragging and slow

Oh, I never thought of doing that. So the next time I see that the internet is running slower than it is supposed to, do I re-set the modem?

Do I unplug the modem for 60 seconds and re-plug it in? Or do I do what the tech guy had me do? He had me take a pen, and go to the back of the modem and hold in the red thing for 30 seconds.

That is the same thing as re-setting???? Am I correct?

Melody

P.S. What else does re-setting the modem do? Do I have to re-enter any passwords or anything like that?