Q: My Outlook e-mail program keeps receiving similar spam messages, even though I've labeled them as junk and blocked their senders. These e-mails have little rectangles between the letters in the ...

If your inbox is flooded with junk emails, you are not alone. Spam messages made up nearly 50 percent of email traffic in September 2020, according to data from Statista. What’s more, out of the 293.6 ...

WASHINGTON — Chris Pearson, a state legislator in Vermont, had a sense that the people were with him when he proposed a bill last November to allow residents to block junk mail. He got media attention ...

According to the American Economics Association, consumers and firms collectively spend a minimum of $20 billion annually due to spam. This money goes in a variety of directions, and anti-spam ...

The bad stuff goes in a spam folder. If an offensive piece of digital mail gets through, the user highlights it, then clicks the block button. If enough users brand the same piece of mail as spam, ...

Few people like junk mail, telemarketing calls or unsolicited offers that come by email. But can you stop them? Not entirely, but you can cut them back, often severely, by following these five steps: ...

America Online Inc., the world’s largest Internet service provider, has agreed to buy privately held Mailblocks Inc., developer of a service designed to block junk e-mail, AOL said on Wednesday. Terms ...

If you use Apple’s Mail app on your iPhone and want a tidier inbox, follow along for how to mark emails as junk as well as how to move multiple emails at once to junk. iCloud email addresses and most ...

The state would be wasting its time and our money attempting to ban junk mail. The broad, overreaching law proposed by two state representatives tosses out the good with the bad, while not addressing ...

Dear Mary: You recently wrote about paper shredders, which made me think about all the unwanted address labels my mother receives from charities. She has made a few donations other the years and is ...

In a front-page article of the March 20 edition of The Bulletin, postmasters reportedly complained that a proposed bill to “allow residents to block junk mail” would harm the postal service because ...

Chris Pearson, a state legislator in Vermont, had a sense that the people were with him when he proposed a bill last November to allow residents to block junk mail. He got media attention, radio ...