How to avoid email spam

E-mail spam, also called junk email or unsolicited bulk email (UBE), is now an unfortunate fact of life for most internet users. GreenNet does more than most to remove spam. What can you do to reduce your chance of getting spam, or to deal with it if you do?

Filtering Spam with Eudora

The following instructions are for Eudora 5/6/7. Eudora 3 looks slightly different

Filtering Spam with MS Outlook 2000

If you’re tired of wading through piles of spam each day, follow these instructions to set up automatic spam filters for your Microsoft Outlook 2000 inbox.

Filtering out spam

You can set your email program to move spam straight to the junk folder, either using any system the program has, or with GreenNet’s own pretty accurate markers.

Filtering Spam with Thunderbird

How to configure Mozilla Thunderbird to move spam to the Junk folder automatically.

Network news and actions

19 Nov 09 Sh!t Matters

– especially on World Toilet Day. CLTS is using the opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of sustainable and safe sanitation systems around the world.

17 Nov 09 Delays show fragility of Nigeria's oil delta amnesty

YENEGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria has yet to begin the process of educating and reintegrating thousands of former militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta, prompting some to question their decision to lay down arms for clemency.

14 Oct 09 Twitter can't be gagged: online outcry over Guardian/Trafigura order

Trafigura, a London-based oil trader connected with dumping toxic waste in Ivory Coast in 2006, was the most used word on micro-blogging site Twitter this morning.

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