Spam email is such an intrusion into our lives. We don’t want it, we didn’t ask for it and yet it comes right into our home to bother us. Some spam is very offensive. Some spam is X rated and children might be looking over our shoulder. Spam can take a lot of time to deal with and can seem almost overwhelming. Most of the software programs that we use to read email and many of the Internet Service Providers offer effective ways to deal with spam. The catch is that it requires a small investment of time and study to learn to apply the spam filers that we have within our reach. There are two ways to filter spam mail: at the server and at our desktop email program. Since I have previously written on setting up spam filters at the server level, on a hosting account, I will touch on spam filtering that works within POP email accounts.

There seems to be a flavour of person insisting on nonsense; be it tagging posts of irrelevance, emails to all, vacant prayer requests (there is plenty of inappropriate prayer-talk getting around) and the like. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say it; I really do hate being spammed.