Parental Filter

tater03 · #11 02-07-2007, 12:29 AM

Yes there is a whitelist that you can use to only get mail from certain people. My sons are way to young for an email address. I have seen some of the sites that are for children's email address' and they look pretty good.

katharina · #12 10-03-2008, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by schmuley

My buddy's kids just got their own email addresses - they're 10 and 11. He went with Gmail since he thinks they're pretty good at filtering spam straight out of the gate, and I'd have to agree.

Sam

I have less spam at gmail than other places, but it's there and some of it
is particularly nasty to think of a child seeing it. You don't need to spread
your email all over the net because the smammers find it. I think that a
parent first checking the box for porn and nasty spam is a good way to do
it when the kid is... well like under 13 or so, I'd think.

HappyMom · #13 27-05-2008, 11:37 PM

My daughter is 14 now and she has her own email address since she was 12 .At the beginning I did know her address' password as it was me the one who configured that address for her ,but after a while I noticed totally by chance that she did make another email address herself !
For a while I wondered on how to deal with ,then I decided to let her to have some privacy ,only I explained to her that she should not open any email that comes from an unknown address but deleted it immediately 'cause those may contain viruses ( well ...) that would harm our computer so badly we won't be able to use it . She understood and respected this so far .

racheldarcy · #14 29-05-2008, 07:34 PM

This is something that I have been worried about as well. Obviously a spam filter will help, but there is always some stuff that gets through there. I think I will just wait to let them have email addresses until I think they are ready to know how to deal with this sort of email.

Mommy In Pink* · #15 09-06-2008, 02:29 PM

I would trust my children with an e-mail address of their own and think that it's a great way for them to learn the basics of computer usage, what I would not trust are the spam e-mails they are going to get about "Viagra" and other horrid things that are absolutely unsuitable for their age.
I would probably have to find a very good spam-filter, but I'd still be afraid of the few spams that are bound to eventually leak in somehow. It's very sad, but it's a fact that once connected to the internet there is no safe place to hide.
I would not mind at all for my kids to have their own e-mails but it looks like I would have to do a lot more thinking before deciding if whether it is what's best or not because the risks are just too great for comfort. All those nasty spam e-mails are just something I would dread for my children to find in their inbox.