Is there any E-mail user whose exempt from coping with Spam? 

Probably not if they want to be available to receive E-mail from new people. After years of seeing the problem seem only to increase there's been too little relief from Spam.  As I write I routinely receive in excess of 300 E-mail messages a day which seems to include 60 or 75% Spam.

Businesses and individulas can invest in a 3rd party Spam software to automate some of the process and gain features that are typical for most Spam management software including:

• White List - Only accept E-mail from these specific E-mail addresses and NO others.
• Black List - Don't accept E-mail from these specific E-mail addresses (Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007 have this 'junk mail' feature built-in!)
• Analyze message subjects for key words and move 'suspected' Spam messages to a 'Spam Folder'
• Analyze message subjects fir key words and discard 'suspected' Spam messages
• Analyze message subjects for key words and precede 'suspected' Spam with the word (Spam).

For the great majority of E-mail users the tools already in place resemble the 'Black List' approach and the black list results are routinely overwhelmed by the volume of Spam that gets through anyway. While there are several variations on the 'Black List' approach it's probably the most popular because 'simply put' it let's you be the Spam filter of last resort. 

If like us you'd like a 'low' or 'no cost' solution here's one step-by-step way to use tools that are very likely already available:

1. Subscribe with abandon to any E-mail lists, newsletters, etc that interest you.
2. Turn on the webmail Spam checking feature in the options and settings area of your primary service provider.  (Most of us have good Spam filtering available with accounts from Yahoo, AT&T, HotMail, MSN, etc. we just need to take advantage.)
3. Routinely keep a browser window opened and logged onto your webmail account.
4. Turn off the automatic send-receive feature in your E-mail software.  (For example in Outlook 2003 go to [Tools]-->{Options]-->[Mail Setup]-->[Send/Receive] and 'un-Check' the two options that begin 'Schedule an automatic Send/Receive...' then click [Close] and [OK].)
5. Whenever you're ready to receive E-mail begin by previewing just the senders and subjects in your online inbox (e.g. Step #3) for possible Spam.  (We simply use the down arrow key with one hand and click on [Spam] button for any Spam that appears in Yahoo's E-mail.)  This step also serves to train your service providers Spam filter to learn more about what E-mail really is Spam.
6. Once the E-mail preview of your online inbox is complete switch to the Spam folder.
7. Next, switch to your E-mail client software (we use Outlook) and initiate a [Send/Receive] to receive the already 'previewed clean' E-mail.
8. While E-mail is coming in switch back to the browser window displaying your online E-mail
9. Skim through the Spam folder for possible 'good' E-mail.  (We like to first sort by and then focus on senders, as the quickest way to identify E-mail that is not Spam!)
10. For any E-mail found to be 'OK', click on the [Not Spam] button to move it to the online inbox.
11. Press the [Empty] button or it's equivelent to abandon all the remaining E-mail Spam that did not get rescued in step #10.
12. Switch back to your E-mail client software and initiate one last 'Send/Receive'
13. Set up folders that allow you to quickly sort incoming E-mail before it's read.  (We like to have folders for newsletters and announcements that are of interest but not critical.  In our case they may never actually be opened and read until found in a search.)
14. QuIckly sort newsletters and announcements by dragging them to their respective folders

All this should leave you with a much shorter list of E-mail to take action on.  In our case we can rather quickly sift 300+ E-mails into a list of 75 or more that we need to review and take action on. 

PS     Outlook in all it's recent versions has a 'Junk Mail' handling feature that we've used pretty consistently but with minimal results.  If you choose to use it in the above process it will occasionally snag a leftover Spam message and place it in junk.  Unfortunately using this feature requires you to review E-mail in outlook, click on a 'Junk Mail' button (we customize it onto the Outlook tool bar to make it easy to use) and then you still need to periodically empty a 'Junk Mail' folder in outlook.  In short, based on our experience, it's just not worth the trouble to implement and use Outlook's junk mail handling when all you need to do instead is delete (maybe permanently delete with [Shift] and [Delete]) any SPAM that does get through.

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