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There is a way to block unwanted email. In your mail system, click on Tools...scroll down until you get to a mail wizard or an inbox assistant and click on it. This should open up a window that allows you to set the rules for incoming messages. Click ADD and another window will open up for you to set the rules... in the FROM line type in the unwanted address. Then scroll down to the bottom of this window and click on the box by the words "do not download from server". This should stop the unwanted messages from this address from being sent to you. If this makes absolutely no sense, call your email server and ask them how to do it. You do not have to endure cyber porn if you don't want it. Everyone is right to suggest that you never open an unwanted message. You never know if they might contain a virus. Here is an interesting tangent...there are internet sites called MUDs (multi user domains) where people come with different personaes to fit the theme of the MUD (Star Trek Mud, Medievil Mud Etc.) and they write the script as they go...like a chat room with a story line so people talk 'in character'. There is a famous recent case of one user taking control of another user's character in the MUD and then preceeding to script a sexual assault by typing in both characters words. The person who had her personae 'stolen' claims that she was emotionally traumatized and hence, a huge debate raged about whether she was cyber-raped or not. Did an assault actually take place even if it was a virtual one? The point is that if you don't feel comfortable with something...try to stop it. Asking for help on this list always seems to unfold bountiful gifts... it is a virtual safe house. Hope I haven't bored anyone. Joan U. Original Message----- From: Clare Wilson <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 7:45 PM Subject: Re: unwanted e-mail >Nita, my unwanted mail is porn. I delete about 5 announcements daily. >How do I get that stopped? >Clare >