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Junk email is at best tedious and at worst downright offensive. And there is just so much of it - tens of billions sent each day - that you might think 'why do they bother'? They bother because it is so ridiculously cheap to send that if even the tiniest fraction of recipients respond by ultimately parting with cash, then it is profitable. Outlook 2003 has built-in spam filtering, but you need to buy Microsoft Office to get it. If you are an Outlook Express user, you will either need to enlist third-party assistance or do it yourself with 'rules'.
The problem with this is that spammers are clever. While it was once a simple matter to filter out messages or headers containing words such as 'viagra', the goalposts continually shift with variants such as 'v1agra', vi@gra and so on. If you get regular junk messages from, say, 'sender@junkmail.com' then you can create a rule to move all messages from this sender to a 'junk' folder, delete them immediately or not download them from the server.
Highlight the message in the inbox, then go to 'Message, Create Rule From Message ...' and choose the appropriate conditions and actions. Simpler still is to banish the sender from your inbox permanently by going to 'Message, Block Sender ...' (see screen 1).
However, spammers have long been wise to this, so you could get messages from 'dlkfnmesovb@junkmail.com', where the random nonsense name is different in each message. You can kill these at one swoop,...
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