How To Set Up A Spam Stopper
You'll never be able to totally eliminate Spam. But there are a few things you can do to create a spam stopper, so to speak, and stop the flow of spam into your inbox.
Since it is unavoidable to receive spam, you may want to set up a "dummy" email address. You would use this address when you register for newsletters, order products, enter contests, and register your new software.
You would like to avoid using you primary email address, or the email address that you receive from your ISP for things like that. This is the email that you would give your contacts or "safe people."
Naturally you will still receive some spam in your primary address, but at least not all of your time will be spent dealing with them. You can check your dummy address about once a week, or more if you really feel it is necessary. When you are on the internet or using a homepage of your own, you will also want to avoid posting your email address in your "contact me" section. Since spammers scan through different homepages and look for the @ symbol, you would serve yourself better to write your email address with the word "at" instead. That makes it a bit more difficult for spammers to find your email address because they use special software that searches for the symbol, and not just the words. It won't stop it completely but it will help. The biggest reason why spam is out there is because certain people have some sort of product or service that they are trying to sell. The absolute worst thing that you could do is buy something from them. Obviously, we can't make everyone refuse to purchase their wares, but you can at least do your part. Just imagine how perfect the world would be if everyone gathered together to refuse to buy things that were offered in an unsolicited email. That would be the ultimate spam stopper. Spammers would be out of business the moment that they realized that they weren't getting anywhere.
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