{"id":1230,"date":"2011-04-08T08:38:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2011-04-08T08:38:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:38:58","slug":"dont-be-afraid-of-your-spam-folder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/dont-be-afraid-of-your-spam-folder\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t be afraid… of your spam folder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is increasing obvious to us that many of you \u00a0are still not checking their spam folders for “good” emails. This is \t\tsomething you must get in the habit of doing or you’re going to miss a \t\tlot of good email. No spam filter is perfect. None. Zero. Nada. There is \t\tno such thing as a perfect spam filter. Inevitably the baby is going to \t\tget thrown out with the bath water. So if you don’t get in the habit of \t\tchecking your spam folder frequently — you are going to miss an important email. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s get to the gist of \t\tthis tip which is that the spam folder is not poison, nor is it \t\tnecessarily full of harmful thingies that will eat up your computer. A \t\tfew simple rules to follow before you delve into that dark, foreboding, \t\tspam folder:<\/p>\n

1. Don’t click links in email \t\tfrom senders you don’t recognize; especially if they’re selling \t\tsomething or trying to get you to download something.<\/p>\n

2. Don’t click any links in \t\temails that appear to be from banks, governments, financial institutions \t\tor stock trading companies. Dollars to donuts, you can bet these are \t\tphishing scams.<\/p>\n

3. When in doubt, delete it \t\tout. If you’re not sure, delete the darn thing.<\/p>\n

Now, with those rules in mind, \t\tcheck your spam folder whenever there is anything in it. MSN\/Hotmail, \t\tYahoo will delete items from your bulk or spam folder at unspecified \t\tintervals. Gmail will auto-delete mail in your spam folder every 30 \t\tdays. What that means to you is this: If you don’t check your bulk or \t\tspam folder frequently, any good emails ensconced therein, will be \t\tdeleted from the face of the earth – never to be seen again. That means \t\tthings like our newsletter, that birthday greeting from auntie Em, or \t\tthat special email from uncle George who wanted to know your current \t\taddress so he could make you a billionaire when he passes on – you’re \t\tgetting the idea, right?<\/p>\n

Here, we’ll even show you. \t\tThis is a screen cap of one of our Gmail account spam folders. See the \t\tbutton that says Not spam? Select the email you find in your spam folder \t\tthat is not spam by clicking the box next to it and clicking the “Not \t\tspam” button. After you mark email from a certain sender “Not spam” any \t\tmail from that sender in the future will no longer be placed in the spam \t\tFolder. Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, et. al. don’t know if something \t\tmarked spam is good email unless you tell them. If our newsletter ends \t\tup in this folder and you don’t check it, you’re going to write to us, \t\tboo-hooing that you didn’t get your newsletter. And, if you don’t select \t\ta good email and mark it “Not spam” what do you think is going to happen \t\tthe next time the sender sends you an email? Right! It’s going to end up \t\tright back in the spammy bin. It doesn’t get any easier than this! Look \t\tbelow and absorb \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Soooooooo….don’t be afraid \t\tto peer into your spam folder frequently and dig out the good emails \t\tthat are in it. If you find a good email, select it and click “Not \t\tspam”. That way Yahoo, MSN\/Hotmail, or Gmail won’t put future emails \t\tfrom that particular sender, in your spam folder the next time. Duh!<\/p>\n

The spam folder is not \t\tdangerous – just browse through it to make sure \u00a0there isn’t any good email in it. Sooner or later you’ll find an important email in your spam folder. Check your spam folder often or take your chances on losing important emails \t\t– like that email from uncle George telling you that \t\the wants to give you $100,000.00 before he kicks the bucket.<\/p>\n

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It is increasing obvious to us that many of you \u00a0are still not checking their spam folders for “good” emails. This is something you must get in the habit of doing or you’re going to miss a lot of good email. No spam filter is perfect. None. Zero. Nada. There is no such thing as a perfect spam\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[84,664,829],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}