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Rat, who can't remember his way round this bloody thing. Started conversation Feb 21, 2004
Yahoo, amongst other things, hates me. It seems to get some kind of cheap thrill by sending me lots and lots of spam and insisting things I send to my bulk mail folder actually belong in my inbox. They wont let me block spam in the normal way so I've made my own arrangements.
In spam proof form, my email is schrodingers underscore new underscore cat at yahoo dot co dot uk however, I won't get any emails unless you a) mark it as high priority or
b) tell me you sent it so I expect it.
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Evangeline Posted Feb 21, 2004
You can list yahoo addresses as allow mail from these addresses only. Or even assign a seperate folder for each address. I made a filter to sort stuff straight into a folder titled just delete this trash... 
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Rat, who can't remember his way round this bloody thing. Posted Feb 21, 2004
Yeah, but I don't like doing that because it opens you up to worms. I don't keep an address book either online or on a harddrive either. I get worms all the time but none of them work
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Evangeline Posted Feb 21, 2004
I had several copies of a couple of particular viruses arrive. Didn't open them, just deleted them. Yahoo has a virus scan feature.
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Evangeline Posted Feb 23, 2004
It is amazing how many things a filter set to sift out (and anihilate)anything containing the words deal, enlarge, mortgage, viagra, and/or singles will catch. 
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Feb 23, 2004
<< I won't get any emails unless you a) mark it as high priority or
b) tell me you sent it so I expect it.>>
Are you saying that, before I send you an email, I have to send you a first email warning that the *real* email is on its way? And I need to mark it as high priority? 
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Evangeline Posted Feb 23, 2004
Kind of wondering the same thing, myself. I just figured Rat had another email address where you're supposed to send the message informing him that you had sent the high priority "official email" to the address in the first post.
My friends and I use subject lines that just couldn't be spam. I have received "Please don't nuke me!". I've sent "This is a vegetarian email and therefore contains no spam".
For family, I have an email with my surname included. We never, ever delete anything with our last name in the sent line. Ours is an uncommon surname.
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Rat, who can't remember his way round this bloody thing. Posted Feb 27, 2004
you wuz meant to tell me on site first
Anyway, nobody knew what I meant and I had three people all put the subject as high priority, not the actual priority...so I've given up and I'm writing my own email client instead
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Feb 27, 2004
All of which begs the question of whether you really *want* us to send you email. 
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Evangeline Posted Feb 28, 2004
Where in yahoo's compose page is the button/box to set an email as high priority? Outlook Express has one, but yahoo doesn't work with Outlook Express anymore. Well, unless you pay for the premium service. I'm not willing to pay to be spammed.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Feb 28, 2004
<< I'm not willing to pay to be spammed. >>
I'm sure that's considered an inalienable right these days.
No spammation without representation.
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Evangeline Posted Feb 28, 2004
Give me liberty!
or at least hand over the people who think I'm going to share my bank account information with them
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Mar 3, 2004
I can't give you liberty, but I think I know where you can get a libertine. Is that close enough?
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Rat, who can't remember his way round this bloody thing. Posted Mar 4, 2004
I got no idea. I use the delightfully wonderful foxmail wherever possible, and trust me - you can get into yahoo. Not sure about how with outlook but you can with fox
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Evangeline Posted Mar 4, 2004
I'll just use my hotmail address, it looks remarkably similar to my yahoo address.
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