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Hi, Donna
I'd recommend you implement the anti-spam methods that your ISP probably provides. I set my security filters at the highest levels. My ISP filters out more than half of the email I would otherwise receive because they have already had reports that the senders are spammers.
Another quarter of my email is sent to my Suspect email box, where I typically scan the senders and subjects before deleting. I do this because there are times when legitimate email winds up here simply because I don't have the address in my Allowed Sender list for some reason. Maybe it is a new friend, for example. After moving the legitimate ones to my Inbox, I can delete the rest all at once.
Once in a blue moon, one gets through that shouldn't, such as the one I began this thread with. Those are the only ones I bother reporting, and I don't block them because I have a limited number I can block. It doesn't do any good anyway, spammers have ways around it, like multiple accounts.
I view it as an annoyance of modern life, of no more importance than the mosquitos I have to swat if they get through my repellant.
By the way, if your ISP doesn't provide these protections, you may want to think about changing to one that does. I know AOL does, and Earthlink does. I'd be surprised if any of the big ones don't.
Good luck, and thanks for posting!
Cheri
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