Deleting an old address

[telboy1938]

Hi, My ISP is Orange (alias Wanadoo / alias Freeserve and my original address was ([email protected]) for example. I then started to get loads of junk including porn by the bucketful so I changed mt address to ([email protected])
This stopped me getting the rubbish in my "in-box" but my trash can gets around 100 / 150 messages daily which is only deleted after about a week thus there is usually 1000 aprox messages in the box. I do hav to search the box due to some wanted / legal mail filters into the wrong box....Is there a way to discard with the "freddy" completely please??? I don't want to change my whole address completely...Thanks..Telboy

[pug100]

Hi telboy
The reason you get junk mail is because you may have visited or registered with certain websites which sell your e-mail address to spam e-mailers or by posting it on an open forum such as this one. Whatever you do don't respond to junk e-mail as this usually triggers even more as it proves that the address is 'live' .You can guard against this in future by being more selective about who you give your email address to.
If you create an email address for friends & family, another for work and a third for newsgroups etc. you'll quickly discover where the junk mail is coming from by seeing which inbox fills up most.
As for your existing e-mail, just leave it alone. Try to set the spam filter to high and get just e-mail from people in your contacts list. If you retrieve a wanted e-mail from the junk simply add the sender to your contacts list and it should go to the inbox in future. As your address is with Orange you can't delete it but you may need to check every now and then in case there's e-mail from your ISP

[telboy1938]

Thanks pug100..You are clarifying what I already assumed, i.e. I can only rid of these unwanted messages by changing the address following the "@" sign. This presents a problem as I have had this address longer than I care to remember and I receive messages world-wide. Not much of a choice though, have I ?
Regards...Telboy