Great post. I, too, do all of those things. I would add one more that I do
as a matter of course:
If a message looks suspicious, even just as spam, I read the message thusly:
1. Right-click on the email message, within email list (preview pane is
off).
2. Select PROPERTIES.
3. Click the DETAILS tab.
4. Click MESSAGE SOURCE.
This way, you can check out the email in "safe mode" without opening. It
might seem like a lot of steps, but again this is for the ocassional unknown
email, and when you do it often, it becomes a quick habit.
More anti-spam:
1. I have my OE set to _not_ automatically mark read upon opening, in case I
do accidentally open directly.
2. Create lots of individual alias accounts.
Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.
Set them up as "dummy" accounts in OE. This way, if one does get
overrun by spam, you can just kill the email address (/alias), and need to
notify or change email address with only a few places.
3. Set up individual Inbox subfolders to correspond with the aliases. Set
email filters to redirect them.
Helps you quickly identify what kind of email to expect where. I
something other than email from my Registrar hits my domains@ account, I
know that it is suspicious.
Also, to view HTML mail (when you have your settings configured to read as
plain text), click REPLY TO: and the message will appear as HTML -- if you
have your Send option set to "reply to in format which was sent".
T--
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Glasgow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] [OT] spam menace from Korea
Joseph,
As scams go, it's relatively unsophisticated and easy to avoid. Common
sense email "best practices" will prevent it from having effect. Here are
some of the ways I protect myself:
[see original post]
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