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HERE ARE SIX SIMPLE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP KEEP SPAM AT BAY |
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MAKE YOUR
DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION PRIVATE
Did you know that when you register a domain, your name, address, email
address and phone number are immediately made available to anyone who
wants to see them? Your personal information is exposed 24 hours a day,
everyday, to anyone, anywhere.
You have the power to change this. With a private registration at
Schogini doesn't mean sacrificing your privacy. Domain Pr-4.95/yr
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NEVER RESPOND
TO SPAM
Oh sure, they say they’ll take your name off the list, but they’re
lying. What they really want to do is confirm that they’ve got a live
address. Also, if you respond, they’ll sell your address to every other
spammer on the planet meaning you’ll soon be flooded with even more
spam.
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DON’T POST
YOUR ADDRESS ON YOUR WEBSITE
It seems like a good idea at the time, but posting your email
address on your personal home page is just an invitation to spammers.
Spammers and the people who sell spamming as a business have software
that "harvests" email addresses from the Net. This software crawls
through the Internet seeking text strings that are
-something-@-something-.-something-. When it finds one, it catalogs it
on a database of other email addresses to be used to send spam.
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USE A SECOND
EMAIL ADDRESS IN NEWSGROUPS
Newsgroups are the great email address gathering ground for
spammers. If you post to a group, you’re going to get spam -- it is just
a matter of time. So how are you supposed to participate? Use a
different email address than the one you use for talking to friends and
relatives. In other words, have a public address and a private address.
You’ll just have to deal with the spam in your public account.
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DON’T GIVE
YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WITHOUT KNOWING HOW IT WILL BE USED
If a website is asking for your email address, they want to use it
for something. Be sure you know what. Read the terms of use and privacy
statements of any site before telling them your address. Ask yourself
some simple questions. Are they going to share or sell my address? Do I
want emails from this website? Do I trust them? Is it worth the risk? If
you can’t answer these questions satisfactorily, if you can’t find their
privacy statement, don’t tell them your address.
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USE A
SPAM FILTER
While there is no such thing as a perfect filter, anti-spam software can
help keep spam at manageable level. Some of it is cumbersome, some works
better than others, some even requires that you let your email messages
go through another system for storage and cleaning. But right now,
that’s the way it works.
Schogini Systems has a popular Spam Assassin and your own mail
filters for you to have best possible control over spam.
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NEVER BUY
ANYTHING ADVERTISED IN SPAM
The reason that people spam is because they can make money. They make
money, like all advertisers, by convincing people to buy a product. If
no one buys the things advertised in spam, companies will quit paying
spammers to advertise their products.
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