Mary - didn't you realise you can set up 'rules' for email? PM me if you didn't know and would like some help.

How it works:
As email arrives, it is automatically filtered according to rules into folders you've set up specifically for the purpose. Okay, the first time someone sends you an email it won't necessarily get filtered...

It can be used to redirect some spam straight into your 'deleted' folder. The 'ugly' spam normally has XXX somewhere in it, to indicate that it is so-called 'adult' content. All you do is ask the rules to find 'XXX' and move it from your 'inbox' to the 'deleted' folder, and you never have to see it! Have your 'deleted' folder automatically empty itself when you shut down, and the job's a good 'un!

I have a folder called 'Mudcat Mail', with subfolders for people who mail me regularly. I also have folders for all my other friends - and it is regularly backed up to CD Rom. This way I can keep all my friends' mail withou cluttering my hard drive.

As I use email a lot at work, I'm logging in over a dozen times a day; I log in fairly frequently at home, too. Mudcat is something needing time devoted to it, which I can't usually find at work, so it tends to be in the evening that I look through for any new postings.

'Each to their own', as somebody once said!!