Ways To Avoid Spam
Marketers are using email messages more and more to promote their products and services as the amount of people with email addresses increase. This unsolicited “spam” arriving in a consumer’s email in-box can be annoying and unwanted.
Your email address may find its way onto a marketer’s spam email list if your address appears in public. Therefore, in order to reduce the amount of spam in an email box, the consumer can avoid displaying their email address on newsgroup postings, chat rooms, websites, large Internet directories, etc. A website’s privacy policy should be checked to see if it is allowed to sell email addresses. If email addresses are not protected, you may have the option to opt out of receiving email from their “partners” or simply don’t submit your information at all. Reading and understanding an entire form before posting an email address is therefore helpful in order to avoid spam.
Another option is to use two email addresses—one for personal messages and one for newsgroups and chat rooms. You also might consider using a disposable email address service that creates a separate email address that forwards to your permanent account. If one of the disposable addresses begins to receive spam, you can shut it off without affecting your permanent address.
You might want to consider an email program that provides an email filter. Email programs using junk e-mail filters can serve as the first line of defense against spam. You might want to consider these options when you're choosing which Internet Service Provider (ISP) to use.
