My stepdad uses my e-mail address for setting up all of his accounts on his poker sites and I end up getting all of this BS mail. I could never possibly block every single site that he signs ME up for (and trust me, I have tried). Is there some kind of way to filter e-mail into two different folders in yahhoo and specify what mail from which address gets sent where?
thanks.
Oh yeah, and my stepdad said that there is nothing wrong with him doing it.
2006-12-10 06:53:20 · 11 answers · asked by ... 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Put a password on your e-mail, and don't tell him the password.
I assume you use the same computer and this is what is causing your problem. Sign out from your e-mail every time you leave the computer. If you don't give him the password, he can't get back in. Then he cant get the activation e-mail form his sites, and your e-mail address will be useless to him.
You're stuck with the spam from sites he has already signed up with though. All I can say about that, is use a good spam filter.
2006-12-10 06:57:56 · answer #1 · answered by Lisa A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cancel the email address you share with your stepdad. He's using your email address because he doesn't want someone to know he's playing online poker or because he doesn't want to get spammed (so he's letting it happen to you). Cancel the email address, and tell him he can open another email account if he wants to keep playing. Then open a separate email address and use that for your own correspondence with friends and whatnot.
2006-12-10 06:57:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends!! What provider do you for your email?
You can build as many emails addresses from yahoo or msn.
I will either change my password if the provider allows such feature or create a new yahoo or msn email that your father
WON"T know about.
Fred.
2006-12-10 06:57:55 · answer #3 · answered by George 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could open a free yahoo account without him knowing, change your password to your current account, delete all his mail before he opens it every single day so that he never gets mail and gets mad, open him a free yahoo account, or go through one by one like you said you did and unsubscribe to all his crap mail ! Hope this helps.
2006-12-10 06:57:42 · answer #4 · answered by ImAdOcToRuRaNeRd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your stepdad is a putz.
Try making him a yahoo address that he can use for this purpose...dadsjunkemail@yahoo.com or something. If he still persists, you know he's just doing it to be a donkey.
2006-12-10 06:57:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Set him up his own user account and email on your computer.
Failing that you are stuck!
But I would also tell him that by using your address he is technically committing fraud and identity theft is one hit!
2006-12-10 06:55:29 · answer #6 · answered by funkymonkeyuni 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uhmm theres nothing wrong withhim doing that.
Yeh right, what a fool.
Tell him to get his own and that yours.
And make a new one.
Or make him one of his own.
2006-12-10 07:01:29 · answer #7 · answered by T <3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Change your password and don't tell him what it is, help him to set up his own account
2006-12-10 06:55:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a new email
2006-12-10 06:55:11 · answer #9 · answered by Wocka wocka 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ummmm just tell him that your email is your and you should make your own to sign up for things and just tell him how you feel.
2006-12-10 06:55:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋