Here are six tips you can use to help reduce the
\namount of spam you get.<\/p>\n
1. Never respond to unsolicited email. One response or “hit” from thousands of
\nemails is enough for spammers to justify the practice. In addition, a response
\nlets the spammer know that your email address is active, which makes it more
\nvaluable and opens the door to more spam.<\/p>\n
2. Never send your personal information (credit card numbers, passwords, etc.)
\nin an email. Spammers can fake the format of ANY trusted sites. Banks and other
\ntrusted sites will never ask you to send your password or credit card
\ninformation by email. Not really an anti-spam tip, but a reminder… OK?<\/p>\n
3. Never follow a spam email\u2019s instructions to reply with the word “remove” or
\n“unsubscribe” in the subject line or body of the message unless you are sure of
\nand trust the source of the email. Normally, this is a ploy to get you to react
\nto the email, which tells the spammer that your email address is valid.<\/p>\n
4. Never click on a URL or web address listed within a spam email, even if the
\nmessage tells you that\u2019s how you unsubscribe. This is another trick to that
\ntells the spammer your email address is valid. Once they know your address is
\nvalid it can be added to databases which are sold to professional spammers on
\nDVD or CD for a few hundred dollars. And this will result in you getting more
\nspam for sure!<\/p>\n
5. Don’t fall for sites set up to help you remove your name from spam lists.
\nAlthough some of these sites MIGHT be legitimate, most are really collecting
\nvalid email addresses to sell to spammers. If a collector gets your address and
\nthey know it’s a valid, working email address, it is worth a lot of money to
\nthem. They’ll put your email address in one of their databases and sell these
\ndatabases to professional spammers. Not only won’t your email address be removed
\nfrom spam lists, it will added to many spam lists. And you’ll get more spam.<\/p>\n
6. Never allow your ISP to convince you that spam filtering is a service. If you
\nhave a choice, choose an ISP who does not use spam filtering. While spam
\nfiltering might seem to be a service, anytime you allow another person to make
\nchoices for you, you’re going to end up with something you don’t like. What you
\nwon’t like about ISPs who filter your mail is that you’re not going to get all
\nof your good email either – and you might not even be aware it existed. Do not
\nuse ISPs who tout spam-filtering or anti-spam features as a plus. If you don’t
\nhave a choice of ISPs in your area and your only choice is an ISP who insists
\ncensorship is good for you, get a Gmail account and set it up in Windows Mail,
\nOutlook Express or your favorite email program. Gmail provides instructions on
\nhow to do this. And, remember, my fine friends, that Gmail also has
\nspam-filtering too, but luckily for you, you have the final say. If something,
\nlike this newsletter, ends up in your spam folder, all you gotta do is mark it
\n“This is not spam” and it will never be dumped in your spam folder again – it
\nwill always appear in your inbox where you want it (we hope!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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