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Reporting spam
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Instructions by email software
If you receive spam (including any type of unsolicited commercial emails) please
follow the instructions below your for email software. If your software is
not listed, please forward the spam, including all headers, to
abuse@birch.net
Please do not follow any unsubscribe instructions included in the spam. The
majority of the time, the unsubscribe instructions do not work, and sometimes
spammers are merely trying to verifying that that your email address is being
checked. That means you could actually end up with more spam if you follow
their unsubscribe instructions!
Although we cannot stop all spam messages from reaching your inbox, we do our
best to block as many as possible.
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Birch WebMail
- Open the message. Click "Report as Spam”.
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Outlook 97 & 98
- Open the message. Go to "View", select "Options".
In the "Message Options" box, there is a field labeled "Internet
Headers". Click and highlight all text within that field, then right-click
your mouse and select "Copy". Forward the original message to
abuse@birch.net
and then paste the Internet Headers into the top of the message.
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Outlook 2000 & 2002 -
Select
the message. Right-click on the message and select "Options". In
the "Message Options" box, there is a field labeled "Internet
Headers". Click and highlight all text within that field, then right-click
your mouse and select "Copy". Forward the original message to
abuse@birch.net
and then paste the Internet Headers into the top of the message.
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Outlook Express
- Select the message. Right-click on the message and select
"Properties" then select the "Details" tab. There
is a field labeled "Internet Headers for this message:" Click
and highlight all text within that field, then right-click your mouse
and select "Copy". Forward the original message to
abuse@birch.net
and then paste the Internet Headers into the top of the message.
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Netscape Mail
- Open the message. Go to "View", select "Headers"
then select "All". All your messages from now on will have the
full headers. Above the message. Forward the message to
abuse@birch.net
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