Top 10 Most Popular Anti-Spam Tips, Tricks and Secrets
Spam, spam and spam. How to avoid spam, how to filter spam, and how to complain about spam are the items on this menu of junk mail fighting tips.
Only the tips most popular with other email users make it to this page, but other can be just as useful:
All Spam Fighting Tips
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1) Don't Use Your Primary Email Address to Sign Up for Anything
You never know what might happen to an email address you use to sign up for Web sites or newsletters. It might be passed on to spammers.
2) Stop Spam with Disposable Email Addresses
Once your email address gets in the hands of spammers, you will get spam. Lots of it. Find out how to use disposable email addresses to dispose of spam (and spammers) effectively.
3) Disguise Your Email Address in Newsgroups, Forums, Blog Comments, Chat
Make it more difficult for spammers to get your address by obfuscating it when you use it in newsgroups, forums and the like.
4) Use Disposable Email Addresses at Your Web Site
Disposable email addresses can put an end to the spam you get from mentioning your email address on your home page.
5) Ignore Delivery Failures of Messages You Did Not Send
If you wonder why you are getting delivery failures for messages you know you did not send, the cause may be a worm or a spammer, and it's probably not on your computer.
6) How to Report Spam with SpamCop
Complain about spam the right way easily with SpamCop, which does all the analyzing for you and generates a perfect complaint email, too.
7) Use a Good Anti-Spam Program
Achieve a near spam-free email account by employing one of the great anti-spam tools that filter junk mail using all kinds of clever strategies.
8) How Long, Complicated Email Addresses Beat Spammers
Spam will, eventually, make it to any mailbox. Any? Here's how to make it hard for spammers to guess your address.
9) Domain Owners: Set up Throwaway Addresses to Fight Spam
Create email addresses for use in sign-up forms on the fly to identify — and radically ban — sources of spam.
10) Assume Mail from Unknown Senders is Spam
I don't know you... you must be a spammer! Here's how to use your email address book to identify and filter spam.
Only the tips most popular with other email users make it to this page, but other can be just as useful:
All Spam Fighting Tips
Spam Filtering Software and Services
1) Don't Use Your Primary Email Address to Sign Up for Anything
You never know what might happen to an email address you use to sign up for Web sites or newsletters. It might be passed on to spammers.
2) Stop Spam with Disposable Email Addresses
Once your email address gets in the hands of spammers, you will get spam. Lots of it. Find out how to use disposable email addresses to dispose of spam (and spammers) effectively.
3) Disguise Your Email Address in Newsgroups, Forums, Blog Comments, Chat
Make it more difficult for spammers to get your address by obfuscating it when you use it in newsgroups, forums and the like.
4) Use Disposable Email Addresses at Your Web Site
Disposable email addresses can put an end to the spam you get from mentioning your email address on your home page.
5) Ignore Delivery Failures of Messages You Did Not Send
If you wonder why you are getting delivery failures for messages you know you did not send, the cause may be a worm or a spammer, and it's probably not on your computer.
6) How to Report Spam with SpamCop
Complain about spam the right way easily with SpamCop, which does all the analyzing for you and generates a perfect complaint email, too.
7) Use a Good Anti-Spam Program
Achieve a near spam-free email account by employing one of the great anti-spam tools that filter junk mail using all kinds of clever strategies.
8) How Long, Complicated Email Addresses Beat Spammers
Spam will, eventually, make it to any mailbox. Any? Here's how to make it hard for spammers to guess your address.
9) Domain Owners: Set up Throwaway Addresses to Fight Spam
Create email addresses for use in sign-up forms on the fly to identify — and radically ban — sources of spam.
10) Assume Mail from Unknown Senders is Spam
I don't know you... you must be a spammer! Here's how to use your email address book to identify and filter spam.
posted by Terry Simon at 12:43 AM
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