[WEB4LIB] FW: RE: Preferred public email accounts

[Keith Higgs]

Here's the short list on how I keep the Yahoo spam so low.

1) I don't give that address out. I have a couple of people who know it
from one of my past lives but it's mostly there because I take advantage
of a couple of other things on Yahoo.  For one thing that's how I access
my contacts list when I'm away from my desk.

2) I don't subscribe any mailing lists through that account.  99.99% of
my listserv activity is work related so it goes through my @po.cwru
account.

3) I've been fairly religeous about telling the folks at Yahoo what is
spam, in addition to blocking offending addresses as stuff comes
through.

My yahoo account really is just a convenience account so I don't put
things through my work account when they really don't belong there.

D. Keith Higgs <mailto:dkh2 at po.cwru.edu>
 Case Western Reserve University, Webmaster - University Library
 Additional Information at http://www.cwru.edu/UL/
"Follow the white rabbit."


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Kevil, L H.
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 02:13 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: RE: Preferred public email accounts
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Keith,
> 
> How do you manage to keep your trash mail so low?
> 
> Yahoo's SpamGuard does catch most spam and place it in the 
> bulk mail folder. But I find we still have to scan it because 
> some messages we do want are sent there.  But for the trash 
> that gets into the Inbox, you have to open the message before 
> you can mark it as spam, and some of those messages are very 
> offensive. 
> 
> Hunter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Higgs [mailto:dkh2 at po.cwru.edu]
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:51 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Preferred public email accounts
> 
> 
> While it's not the only option out there I would have to 
> agree with this
> evaluation of Yahoo. Their spam filter has actually gotten quite good
> and gets better all the time.  In fact, the now have tools for you to
> tell them that a particular message is spam so they can enhance their
> filter.
> 
> I now see less than 4 spam messages a month in my Yahoo 
> account. It used
> to be several per day.  Contrast that with the (literally) 
> hundreds that
> are handled every day by my client side filtering on this account.
> 
> D. Keith Higgs <mailto:dkh2 at po.cwru.edu>
>  Case Western Reserve University, Webmaster - University Library
>  Additional Information at http://www.cwru.edu/UL/
> "Follow the white rabbit."
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> > [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Bill Teschek
> > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 12:29 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Preferred public email accounts
> > 
> > 
> > When your patrons ask for advice on what free, web-based email 
> > service to sign up with, what do you advise them? I'd like 
> to find a 
> > service that is obscure enough not to generate great volumes of 
> > spam (like hotmail does) but stable enough to be unlikely to 
> > disappear some day in the near future. I've been suggesting yahoo 
> > as a better alternative to hotmail, but would like to explore some 
> > other options.
> > 
> > Bill Teschek
> > Assistant Director
> > Lane Memorial Library
> > 2 Academy Ave.
> > Hampton, NH 03842
> > bteschek at hampton.lib.nh.us
> > (603)-926-3368
> > (603)-926-1348 (fax)
> > http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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