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3. Don't reply to unsolicited email. Replying confirms that the spammer has reached a valid email address, which leads to more spamming.
4. Create & use a free e-mail account at yahoo or hotmail when ordering online. Guard your work email or personal email account from advertisers; only give to work related contacts or personal friends. Note that if a friend has your personal address in their contact book and an email worm compromises their email, your address could be captured and used for spamming.
5. Setup Spam "keyword" filter in your Microsoft Outlook or Outlook express mail client. You can have your outlook email program look for specific keywords in the subject or address of email received and put them in a separate junk e-mail folder; this can reduce the amount of spam that ends up in your regular inbox. For detailed instructions on how to set up free spam filtering visit, Outlook 2002 (http://www.usao.edu/infoservices/emailfilter.html) or Outlook Express (http://www.cvc.net/hp/blocking_spam.html).
4. Create & use a free e-mail account at yahoo or hotmail when ordering online. Guard your work email or personal email account from advertisers; only give to work related contacts or personal friends. Note that if a friend has your personal address in their contact book and an email worm compromises their email, your address could be captured and used for spamming.
5. Setup Spam "keyword" filter in your Microsoft Outlook or Outlook express mail client. You can have your outlook email program look for specific keywords in the subject or address of email received and put them in a separate junk e-mail folder; this can reduce the amount of spam that ends up in your regular inbox. For detailed instructions on how to set up free spam filtering visit, Outlook 2002 (http://www.usao.edu/infoservices/emailfilter.html) or Outlook Express (http://www.cvc.net/hp/blocking_spam.html).
1. Remove or modify email addresses that are visible at your company's web site. Studies by the HTUCenter for Democracy & Technology's UTH Anti-Spam study showed the greatest amount of spam was received from addresses posted on a public web site. People who develop spam lists use address-harvesting programs to surf across thousands of web sites, collecting any e-mail addresses that they encounter. Create a spambot resistant mailto link using javascript, visit this link for an online script generator: (http://www.mways.co.uk/prog/hidemail.php) Replacing characters in an e-mail address with human-readable equivalents makes it harder for the automatic scanning of your address e.g. "plee@yahoo.com" was written "plee at yahoo dot com;"
2. Be sure to "opt-out" when offered a choice by online advertisers to use your email address. Carefully read online forms that request your email address, if there is an option of declining to receive email advertising or distribution of your address, exercise that option. The aforementioned study found that, by and large, advertisers will respect your request for privacy.
2. Be sure to "opt-out" when offered a choice by online advertisers to use your email address. Carefully read online forms that request your email address, if there is an option of declining to receive email advertising or distribution of your address, exercise that option. The aforementioned study found that, by and large, advertisers will respect your request for privacy.
