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Hate Spam? Here’s 7 Tips To Reduce Or Eliminate Spam
Do you hate spam as much as most people? No, I don’t mean the food, I mean the constant torrent of unwanted junk emails you get everyday.
Of course I’m sure you’ve heard of this basic computer term.
These emails varies from mortgage rates to “enhancing body parts, to pornography, and their numbers grow every day. Some experts estimate that spam accounts for over 90% of all emails!
Spam is named after an old Monty Python sketch which took place in a diner where you can only buy spam. It’s almost impossible for people to talk as a chorus of vikings loudly sings about how wonderful spam is. Decades later, this reminded someone of how email in your inbox can get lost in all of the junk mail, so they named it spam and the name stuck.
It can be hard to avoid getting your email address on *some* list. It’s not uncommon for many people to get 50 to 100 pieces of spam in just one day – I know some people who get over 300 a day! And the problem is getting much worse.
Luckilly there are ways for people to limit how much spam they get. Here are a few tips:
Never try to unsubscribe or ask to be taken off the list. Those emails may include a link or a reply address to unsubscribe, but most either simply don’t work, or you’re just notifying the spammers that they’ve got a live one.
*Never order anything advertised in spam, click through to the website, or in any way respond to the ad. The spammers are about to email a million people at once, for next to nothing. Every time someone orders the spammers are just encourages to send more.
*Try to avoid entering your email address on websites as much as possible. If you do, consider getting a second email account with Yahoo mail or a similar service. That way, you can enter that address instead of your main one.
Many websites offering contests, joke lists, free greeting cards, etc. profit by selling your address, along with many others, to fellow spammers.
* You must avoid signing online guest books like the plague. As an experiment I recently created a new email address and entered it on about five guestbooks I found with a Google search. Within 24 hours I was getting spam, and it grew to dozens a day within a week.
* Simply glancing at the body of a junk email can send a signal to the spammer letting them know you opened it. So if your email client has a “work offline” setting (the file menu is a good place to look for this) click it before opening suspect emails. You can also disconnect from the internet completely, but unless you’re still stuck using dialup, this could involve unplugging cables. Really, the best option is to use the “offline” feature of your email application.
If you use a web-based email service like Yahoo Mail, You can’t go offline when you use a web-based email service. Check your mail options for a setting to turn off graphics in emails, or to display mail in plain text only. Turn on any option about blocking or not loading remote images.
These steps can help keep the spammers from knowing you’ve opened the message.
*Avoid forwarding emails to large numbers of people.
Not everyone realizes that when you forward a message, the email addresses of everyone who receives the message is visible to every person who reads it. If any of the recipients is a spammer, or if one of a friend’s computer is infected by certain viruses, they can harvest all of those addresses, including yours.
If you do send an email to multiple people, you can avoid revealing email addresses by entering addresses in the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) area instead of To or CC. This will hide the list of addresses from everyone else.
If you’re sending a message from somebody on to others, you should copy and paste just the message into a new email window rather than hitting the forward button — this trims the message down and protects the privacy of others.
*To deal with the spam you already receive, most email applications allow you to create “filters” or “rules” that move incoming email into a specified folder or even right into the trash.
Setting filters up can be complicated, but the newer versions of many email applications, including Mozilla Thunderbird and Mac OS X Mail make it much easier.
The programs recognize patterns in spam, and use your address book as a white list of legit senders. Junk can be cleared from your inbox with a click. The more spam you mark, the better the program gets at automatically taking care of them. You’l be blessed with an uncluttered inbox.
Many internet providers also provide a spam filter which blocks email before it gets to your computer. The problem with this is that they often block legitimate mail and you may never know about it.
Because of this, I recommend using filtering software on your own computer, such as the two programs I just mentioned.~*Never order anything you see in junk email, visit the website, or in any way respond to the ad. It costs almost nothing for a spammer to send out thousands of emails. Every time someone orders the spammers are just encourages to send more.
*Never try to unsubscribe or ask to be taken off the list. Those emails may have a link or a reply address to unsubscribe, but most either just don’t work, or you’re just notifying the spammers that they have a live one.
* Never put your name in a guest book on a website. As an experiment I recently created a new email address and entered it on about five guestbooks I found with a Google search. Within 24 hours I was getting spam, and it grew to dozens a day within a week.
*Try to avoid entering your email address on websites as much as possible. If you do, consider getting a second email account with Windows Live Mail or a similar service. That way, you can enter that address instead of your main one.
Many websites offering contests, joke lists, free greeting cards, etc. violate your privacy by sending you spam and selling your address to others who send you even more.
* The act of opening some junk email alerts the spammer, so they know they have a live one. So if your email client has a “work offline” option (You’ll often locate this in the File menu) select it before opening suspect emails. You can also disconnect from the internet completely, but unless you’re still making the mistake of using the out-of-date dialup, this may involve unplugging wires. Really, the best option is to use the “offline” feature of your email client.
If you use a web-based email service like {Yahoo Mail, you won’t be able to go offline in this way~You can’t go offline when you use a web-based email service~It’s impossible to use web-based email services offline}. Check your mail options for a setting to turn off graphics in emails, or to display mail in plain text only. If you see an option about not loading remote images, that’s the one to make sure is turned on.
These steps can help keep the spammers from knowing you’ve opened the message.
*To deal with the spam you already receive, most email programs allow you to create “filters” or “rules” that move incoming email into a specified folder or even right into the trash.
Setting filters up can be complicated, but the newer versions of many email clients, including Mozilla Thunderbird and Mac OS X Mail make it much easier.
The programs recognize patterns in spam, and use your address book as a white list of legit senders. You can use a click to clear junk. The more spam you mark, the better the program gets at automatically taking care of them. Your inbox will end up much less full of junk.
Many internet providers also provide a spam filter which blocks email before it gets to your computer. The problem with this is that they often block legitimate mail and you may never know about it.
Because of this, I recommend using filtering software on your own computer, such as the two programs I just mentioned.
*Avoid forwarding emails to large numbers of people.
Not everyone realizes that when you forward a message, the email addresses of everyone who receives the message is visible to every person who reads it. If any of the recipients is a spammer, or if one of a friend’s computer is infected by certain viruses, they can harvest all of those addresses, including yours.
If you do send an email to multiple people, you can avoid revealing email addresses by entering addresses in the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) area instead of To or CC. This will hide the list of addresses from everyone else.
If you’re sending a message from somebody on to others, you should copy and paste just the message into a new email window rather than hitting the forward button — this trims the message down and protects the privacy of others.}
Ultimately, spam is a fact of modern life, and it’s next to impossible to avoid all of it, mostly because of what other people are doing with your email. If your current email address is about to collapse from the amount of spam you get, you might be forced to get a new one.
After that, if you follow the suggestions and free computer tips above, you’ll have a good chance of keeping it under control. While a written article might not be a full replacement for something visual similar to computer training cds I hope you found it still helpful.
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