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thanks, indeed it is a safe haven. Apparently there are a lot of people getting this mail. Nita joan carol urquhart wrote: > 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 > >