Prepare for a change in the weather. Thanks to new email filtering tools, you can build your own electronic fortress against spam. And it doesn't have to cost you a thing. Email filtering lets you set up rules for incoming mail. Filters look at messages and take actions according to what they find.
Filters can automatically sort, reply to or even delete messages.
It's your key to ending the irritation of spam. Quite simply, you can't stop people from sending messages. But you can stop the messages from showing up in your inbox by deleting them automatically. All you need to get started is an email program that supports filtering. Many free email programs feature filtering, including Eudora Light 3.0, Microsoft Outlook 97, Microsoft Internet Mail, Pegasus Mail 2.5 and Pronto Mail 1.1.