I've had a four-fold increase in my email since the start of the year and it's all been spam mail. It's driving my crazy! Emails for Viagra, Penis Enhancements, Cheap Software: I'd dearly love to show these people where they can shove their free software and patches. I thought a patch was something you downloaded to fix security vulnerabilities, not something you put on the end of your "old fella".
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I use Incredimail, and although it has junk filter settings, you have to pay extra to use it. Another example of a software company not giving you value for money. You buy a program only to find you have to keep spending to get the "extras" when it should be something that comes for free with the original package. Every mail program should have something to deal with junk mail, not an add-on that costs you more. I'm using a paid-for version of Incredimail after using it free for years and now find that none of my Gallery files work any more, and that will cost me extra too.
NetObjects Fusion is another example of a program that ships only half complete. If you want any "extras", like search boxes or forms, you have to pay more money. How bloody ridiculous! You buy the program, you expect it to have all the things necessary to build a website. And even paying extra doesn't solve your problems. It's a yearly fee! Pure exploitation is how I see it. Not impressed.
I've tried bouncing the spam mail, but someone must have a full-time job changing the sender on all the emails. You rarely see the same sender's name twice. Most of the accounts are gmail and hotmail. I'm wishing there was a process you could complain to these companies about their clients' activities. My Junee Magic website is where they're all coming through, someone has harvested all the email addresses from that site and using them for their bulk mail-outs. Black-listing the email addresses isn't an option because they constantly change, and black-listing them in Incredimail doesn't solve the problem either. I know there's programs you can use (like Spam Cop) to preview the headers before you download them, but I download mail from about 10 addresses, and the process would be too time-consuming. There has to be an easier way!
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