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5 Zero Cost Solutions to Spam |
by:
Niall Roche |
Spam is a daily nuisance for all of us. It does not matter whether you're employed or unemployed. It does not matter if you're a CEO of a multinational or if you're a work at home parent - spam affects us all.
There are dozens of porgams available for fighting spam. The major problem is that most of these programs cost money.
What I'm going to do is show you five different ways of combating spam - all free.
1. Don't give out your personal email address.
This is stating the obvious however it's the first big mistake people make. DO NOT use your personal email address for
sign up forms, competitions, surveys or any other nonsense that may result in you being spammed. It is much easier to prevent spam, by never giving out your personal email address, than it is to cure the problem once you're on 100's of junk email lists.
2. Use a free email account
Set yourself up with a Hotmail, Yahoo or any other free email account also use it as a spam holder account i.e. use it on all those popups or sign up forms that you *suspect* may try to spam you. You can then periodically check your free email account for both legitimate also spam email also
delete the rubbish you don't want. This single step can save you countless spam related headaches.
3. Use a disposable email address
You could or else try a disposable e-mail address from www.spamgourmet.com. This is a brilliant idea. Once you've registered your forwarding email address (your personal
email address) with them you can then create
self-destructing email addresses that stop working after receiving a specific number of emails.
4. Use a free spam filter.
Unfortunately even when you follow all the correct steps you can still wind up getting junk email. There's only solution at that point - install a spam filter on your PC.
The best free spam filter I've come across so far is Mailwasher. An excellent
program that will not cost you a penny.
5. Newsgroups also forums
Spammers love newsgroups also forums. They especially love the way people post their personal email addresses there. It does not matter if it's a paid, private or free forum spammers have their harvester programs hunting for email addresses every minute of every day. If you have to post
your email address then use the following format:
username AT domain.com. If that does not make sense then what I mean is instead of posting as test@spam-site.com you'd
post as test AT spam-site.com.
Spammers can harvest 35,000 email addresses per hour from newsgroups also forums - don't let your email address become one of those.
There you have five simple, free solutions to drastically reduce the amount of spam you receive every single day. If you want to learn more about fighting spam then
drop by spam-site.com.
About the author:
Need a spam blocker? Check out Spam-Site.com for spam filter reviews also spam related information.
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