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Since the beginning of the Postal Service, people have been getting unsolicited advertisements (commonly known as junk mail). Now, with the invention of e-mail, things have only gotten worse. Here are some things that you can do to help stop hundreds of these letters from showing up in your in-box every month:
- If you run your own mailserver, use a server software that uses a Real Time Black Whole List, such as MAPS. These systems keep track of all known spammers, and they enable your server to deny any incoming mail from them.
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- A lost of spammers will have sentences which say something to the effect of "If you don't want to receive any more of these messages, send a reply to hah@i.got.you". In actuality, these spammers aren't providing you with a way to unsubscribe, but in fact are providing themselves a way to come up with e-mail accounts that they know are valid (because a real person replied from them). As tempting as it may be, just ignore these unsubscribe options, and you'll help to keep yourself off of many spam lists.
- Many spammers will use "spiders" to search the web for and newsgroups for e-mail addresses. So, if you want to post your address to an on-line forum, do so in the form of username(remove-spam-prevention)@domain.com People will know to take out the (remove-spam-prevention), but spam spiders won't.
- Use an e-mail client that "filters" mail into different folders. This will allow you to have e-mail that comes from people that you know, into certain folders, and have all of the other e-mail go into other folders. You can then read everything in the "IKnowYou" folder first, and read everything else at your leisure. While this doesn't stop spam, it allows you to read the important stuff without having to sort through it.
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