Sick emails, what do i do?

[rebajayne]

Im getting emails through from a really weird address and people ive never heard off. They have links on them for me to access a porn site.
They are of very sick things including children and animals.
Ive repiled to the email address and told them to stop sending me the emails or i will report it. I get an email back saying mail delivery failed.
Have i to ignore them and delete them or report them some how.
Thanks

[fo3nix]

It's just spam, and there's not that much you can do about getting them.

One possibility is to choose an email address that is randomly made, like [email protected] or whatever, but that gets confusing.

Another option is to use some sort of spam detector. If you use POP or IMAP from within Outlook Express for example, you could use Thunderbird instead. This has a pretty decent spam filter, which will at least put these things in a spam folder and stop clogging up your inbox.

[Buenchico]

As Fo3nix says, there's not much you can do to stop people sending spam. If you acknowledge receipt in any way (e.g. by sending a reply or by clicking on a link which says 'Click here to unsubscribe') you'll either get a 'bounced mail message' (because a fake 'reply to' address was used) or, even worse, the spammer's server will see that your e-mail address is currently in use and send you lots more spam.

The best thing to do is to have one prime e-mail address which you only give to trusted friends, relatives and colleagues. Then set up different e-mail addresses for particular purposes (e.g. to subscribe to discussion groups). If one of these additional addresses starts to get flooded with spam, you can change it without having to inconvenience the people who you trust.

Lastly, you might want to take a look at Mailwasher. It's a free program which helps you manage spam problems. Normally, when you use Outlook Express or similar software, every e-mail is downloaded, in its entirety, to your PC. With Mailwasher, you can examine the headers of all your mail before the main content is downloaded. You can then delete anything you don't like the look of, while it's still on your ISP's server:
http://www.mailwasher.net/

Chris

[henrys]

i am USING firefox
no junk emails for 3 months now
fingers XXxxXXXx

[fo3nix]

henrys: you repeat the same thing every time someone asks about spam email. Firefox has *nothing* to do with spam email.

also, forgot to add this:
http://www.spamgourmet.com/

basically, it lets you give a random email address to sites that you want to sign up for, but perhaps not properly register for any length of time (maybe you think they'll spam you). totally free, and goes to your regular email address. very easy to use.