[Shop-talk] bogus emails

[Donald H Locker]

I see the email I previously sent (14 Sep) went just to John Niolon; I neglected to copy the list. Dang. Here is my recommendation for Thunderbird also.

I would recommend using Thunderbird [<https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/>](https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/) as your mail application. It will interface with any mail server, has adaptive junk mail filtering that works quite well, and it doesn't load remote content by default (which is one way spammers know there is a human looking at their content, so they can send more!).

As Paul Parkanzky said, DON'T click any links or open any attachments in suspicious emails; they are usually vectors for malware, and provide another signal to the spammers that you exist, and are vulnerable.

I do not recommend gmail; the price you pay is they snoop every email you send or receive to characterise you for targeted ads. I avoid it whenever possible.

Donald.

On 9/15/22 21:02, Gene Garrison wrote:

> I second the use of Thunderbird. Except that I use it's adaptive (learning) spam filter, so that it moves mails that it thinks are spam into a spam filter. And then I go in every few weeks and skim through them and "unspam" any that weren't spam. Takes 5 minutes. And helps train the filter.
>
> And I use this computer for researching shop tools and techniques. :)
>
> - GeneG
>
> On 9/14/22 17:17, Bob Spidell wrote:
>
>> gmail is fine if you don't mind Google reading, analyzing and categorizing your email:
>>
>> https://securityboulevard.com/2019/11/does-google-read-your-email/
>>
>> I use Thunderbird--open source client from the Mozilla people--in POP mode and every time I get a spam email (20 or so a day), I create a filter on the major domain of the sender. It's an inconvenience, but at least I get the satisfaction that the next garbage that site sends goes straight to a local trash folder. T-Bird also has a decent calendar.
>>
>> On 9/14/2022 3:19 PM, Paul Parkanzky wrote:
>>
>>> Get yourself a Gmail account. 99.9% of that stuff gets filtered right out.
>>>
>>> Also, don’t click those links!!!
>>>
>>> -Paul
>>>
>>>> On Sep 14, 2022, at 5:59 PM, john niolon [<jniolon at att.net>](mailto:jniolon at att.net) wrote:
>>>
>>>> 
>>>> over the last week or so I've been getting emails... anywhere from 6 to20 a day... from people I don't know from web addresses
>>>> that aren't valid offering me tremendous deals on everything
>>>>
>>>> from cigars to 30 dollar 20 draw tool boxes to campers to 1000 dollar cookware sets...
>>>>
>>>> I know these are all bogus and if I try to go to one of the sites my malware software slaps me
>>>>
>>>> any way to stop block this crap... shop content...it happens on the pc in the shop
>>>>
>>>> john
>>>
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