I am getting so much email sh*t that i have changed my email address but it still has the same 'family' end to it is there a way of blocking the unwanted emails the isp is saying i can't, well pi**ed off



[Edited on 25/3/04 by macspeedy]

Macspeedy,
I sympathise with you as I had similar problems a couple of years ago when I used Demon Internet.

I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say the 'family' name is the same. Do you mean that if your email address was:
myname@myisp.com
then it is now:
mynewname@myisp.com
or do you use someone like freeserve where the email address is of the form:
anyname@username.freeserve.co.uk
and you are saying that "username" is still the same?

If it's the latter then you will receive all mail sent to <anything>@username.freeserve.co.uk no matter whether you change the <anything> to something else. To block the mail being sent to your old email address then you need to explicitly block this using your email software. If you use outlook express then you can set up an email rule to delete any mail sent to the old address. You can also block specific senders using the "block sender" feature but this is often useless as the sender uses different addresses each time.

The other thing I'd recommend is for you to use an anti-spam program. I use something called Spam Assassin which I run on Linux. I'm not sure if it is available for Windows or not but there are other programs which you can use. On my machine I just add a tag to the subject line "[SPAM]" for anything which spam assassin thinks is spam. It is correct in almost every case so I may well make it delete spam instead of just flagging it. I then use a mail filter rule in outlook express to move the spam into a separate folder where I cast my eye over it from time to time to check for anything which may in fact not be spam (never happened yet...)

I hope this helps,
Craig.

Agreed with Craig - SpamAssasin is very good, but does need a Linux box to run on I believe.

I can sort you out with an @locostbuilders email address if you like?

Chris

Thanks for the help guys i will give it a try, it is the latter, freeserve account, i think isp's should be a bit more help full it is only a bit of software..