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Unsolicited
mail is one of the most annoying things in the world of
internet. Free loans, beautiful blondes, win money ...in
other words SPAM. Unfortunately spammers always find new
ways to bypass the powerful antispam filters from any
ISP. Therefore people will always receive a little spam
in there mail. Here are some rules to avoid the situation
getting worse or to reduce the amount of spam that you
already have received.
1)
Never respond to SPAM.
Oh
sure, they say they’ll take your name off the
list, but they’re lying. What they really want
to do is confirm that they’ve got a live address.
Also, if you respond, they’ll sell your address
to every other spammer on the planet meaning you’ll
soon be flooded with even more spam.
2) Don't post your address
on your web site.
It seems like a good idea at the time, but posting
your email address on your personal home page is just
an invitation to spammers. Spammers and the people who
sell spamming as a business have software that "harvests"
email addresses from the Net. This software crawls through
the Internet seeking text strings that are -something-@-something-.-something-.
When it finds one, it catalogs it on a database of other
email addresses to be used to send spam.
3)
Use a second email address in newsgroups.
Newsgroups are the great email address gathering ground
for spammers. If you post to a group, you’re going
to get spam -- it is just a matter of time. So how are
you supposed to participate? Use a different email address
than the one you use for talking to friends and relatives.
In other words, have a public address and a private address.
You’ll just have to deal with the spam in your public
account.
4)
Don't give your email address without knowing how it will
be used.
If a web site is asking for your email address, they want
to use it for something. Be sure you know what. Read the
terms of use and privacy statements of any site before
telling them your address. Ask yourself some simple questions.
Are they going to share or sell my address? Do I want
emails from this web site? Do I trust them? Is it worth
the risk? If you can’t answer these questions satisfactorily,
if you can’t find their privacy statement, don’t
tell them your address.
5)
Use a personal SPAM filter.
While there is no such thing as a perfect filter, antispam
software can help keep spam at manageable level. Some
of it is cumbersome, some works better than others, some
even requires that you let your email messages go through
another system for storage and cleaning. But right now,
that’s the way it works.
6) Never buy anything advertising
in SPAM.
The reason
that people spam is because they can make money. They
make money, like all advertisers, by convincing people
to buy a product. If no one buys the things advertised
in spam, companies will quit paying spammers to advertise
their products.
Note:
Even if you do all of these things, you could still get
spam.
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