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I use Windows Live Mail but I've seen this same feature on other mailhandles. When I get the dropdown menu on junk mail there are a number of choices including:
Add sender's domain to blocked senders list.
Add sender to blocked sender list.
Mark as junk.
Are any of these any better at blocking out spam that keeps slipping through?
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I hear the logout option works best at reducing your junk-mail.
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Tipton Tyler wrote: Add sender's domain to blocked senders list.
Should work the best because it will get anything from that same domain.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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It will particularly well if the sender's domain is gmail.com, yahoo.com, veriszon.net, etc. ! ! !
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: It will particularly well if the sender's domain is gmail.com, yahoo.com, veriszon.net, etc. ! ! !
Indeed. I was counting on OP having some common sense. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: counting on OP having some common sense
Indeed, thou doth thread on thin ice, indeed!
I've not assumed a 'user' of any of my applications had common sense since I was (literally and in all seriousness!) asked where the Anykey was. Over the decades they've never ceased to disappointment me - I just have gotten better at outsmarting the less persistent ones.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The reason spam slips through is that it is constantly changing exactly the kind of things that these kinds of filters are picking up. So no, in the long run, nothing will ever work to eliminate all spam all the time. And, as others have pointed out you do need to be cautious about excluding too wide a range of mail lest you inadvertently cut off genuine messages.
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Yea, I do have to glance through the list each time to make sure nothing important has slipped through but I am rather surprised how well these things work. I guess what I really wonder about is why are there 3 filters and what's the difference between them. For instance I kind got the impression that if I choose "Mark as Junk" any time a subject heading came up with the same words (as Dr. Oz Add 6 inches) it would throw it into the junk mail folder despite the sender's name or domain. I don't know if that's true, however. And then there's the ones loaded with all the special character junk in the subject line.
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I don't know the ins and outs of the MS filter but if it's anything like Google's 'Mark As Junk' adds to the database of things that have been considered spam with a view to improving the filter for everyone. The best systems of this kind include the actual content of the email as well as the headings, searching for stock phrases or repeated themes, and will also consider whether the email is directly addressed to you, whether it mentions people on your contact list or is sent from them and so on.
The domain exclusions are much less sophisticated but occasionally useful if there are specific senders who are persistently evading the general filters. It is however a bit of a hammer to crack a nut so best used sparingly if at all.
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I wish it let me mark some TLDs as unwanted.
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So I'm out front and I'm digging a hole to bury an old boat at an angle so I can plant flowers in it and get it out of the yard as an eyesore, I live in the deep south and this sort of thing is common(the old boat in the yard thing). So as I'm digging and the neighbor walks up, and the boat is right next to the hole mind ya and asks me watcha doin?
I stopped shoveling, leaned on the handle and said I'm digging a grave step on down here and let's see if I got the measurements right.
He laughed and started helping me dig....we're almost done!
New version: WinHeist Version Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye-
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Ha Ha Ha....
Oops, I mean LOL.
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Don't dig there[^] - dig it elsewhere! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Mike Hankey wrote: digging a hole to bury an old boat at an angle so I can plant flowers in it and get it out of the yard as an eyesore, I live in the deep south and
Just curious...does your house have wheels or is on cinder blocks?
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Yes. 
New version: WinHeist Version Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye-
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I grew up in Northern Ontario on ground strewn with small rocks. We didn't bother digging a hole, just filled the boat with manure (we were on a farm) and planted cucumbers. Bumper crop!
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Here in florida we don't have rocks we've got sand and sand and sand…
New version: WinHeist Version Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye-
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Oh yeah they just appear out of no where.
New version: WinHeist Version Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye-
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...and...well, I kinda know what they mean...We fixed everything[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And I got this: Good? Crap?[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I felt Win95 to be great and Win98 to be so-so. This shows them in reverse.
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It all depends on which service pack you remember... 
They also conveniently left out Windows 2000.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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And NT4.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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95 is bollocks. 98 is OK.
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