Chris Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 We were probably all given an email address by our ISP. This email address is probably made up of your username or your first name [all depends on the ISP]. You probably think it is safe to use this email address anywhere you like?Well generally yes it is, as it's just an email address after all.But some of us may subscribe to newsletters, join foums, enter online competitions and choose not to recieve updates, offers via email. But for some odd reason we're then bombarded with emails.Or SPAM as it's known.There are many ways to combat spam and the easiest way is to Delete them, simple eh?But what if you have tens or worst case scenerio hundreads of spam emails everyday? Well you delete them, simple eh?However there are software solutions to spam as well as other nightmares. For example Mailwasher: MailWasherYou can also set up rules within your email client to redirect emails to certain folders.ISP's also help by altering the subject of an email with *** SPAM ***The email address given yo you by your ISP should be used wisely, so for example only give this email address to friends an family. Hopefully you will then get no spam...Use FREE EmailSign up for a free email address from Yahoo MSN Hotmail are there are many more. Use these email addresses to join forums, enter competitions. If you get spam, so what? Your ISP email will remain spam free....Your OWN Email DomainFor example 1&1 own your own domain name and use it for emailing. Not free but it is cheap... ...Creation Time: 25 MinutesThanks to: Andsome and Alanho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 I am one of the unfortunates who is bombarded with an average of 200 spam messages a day - dealt with by Mailwasher with the occasional hiccup as I mentioned in another thread today. However - even this takes time to manage because just occasionally one of the messages flagged by Mailwasher as Spam is genuine. Hence I have to trawl through the list.I use MS Outlook 2003 for my Email with an add-on programme called InBoxer which is very good - plus Oulook's own Junk filter. Hence I have 3 layers of protection and have yet to be caught out with spam in my Outlook in box.I know that andsome has changed his Email address to something obscure and it has stopped spam in its tracks - but it would be difficult for me to do this because from time to time I carry out executive expat recruitment from home and numerous candidates and clients - past and present - need to maintain contact with me and they are not all in my address book to be notified of any change of address.Furthermore - notifications of software updates, banking and building society log-ons and numerous other sites have my Email address for genuine reasons and I am concerned that if I were to change it, I am sure to forget to notify some organisation of significance.I don't know if there is a moral to my story - I do use my Hotmail address whenever possible and practical but it seems I have to put up with things until the ISP's get to grips with the problem.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linc Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 One of the annoyingg things about giving your email addy is having to put the '@' in it, if you don't it comes back to you as not a proper email addy.for instance [ this is made up for any of you bots]joe.bloggs234 @hyperium.comnow if we could writejoedotbloggs 234 at hyperium dot comthen the bots wouldn't recognise it.It would at least cut down on spam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 I haven't had a single piece of spam in any of my accounts for a couple months. Not even in my hotmail account.The best thing I did to stop spam was to put a block on any and all addresses coming from AOL and Yahoo. In other words I accept no email from AOL or Yahoo. Anyone with an account from them needs to use a different one if they wish to email me. Since doing that I simply don't get spam anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 I have a number of email addresses with various providers. The ones that receive very little or no spam are those in which I have chosen a long(ish) name and removed the vowels. Example fred bloggs esq becomes frdblggssq@. The abbreviation is fairly easy to remember as long as you select a name you know and it does confuse the spam generators. Another thing is if you're putting numbers into an address, put them in the midst of the address, not at the end as may be suggested by the provider if your chosen name is rejected when setting your account up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 I have a number of email addresses with various providers. The ones that receive very little or no spam are those in which I have chosen a long(ish) name and removed the vowels. Example fred bloggs esq becomes frdblggssq@. The abbreviation is fairly easy to remember as long as you select a name you know and it does confuse the spam generators. Another thing is if you're putting numbers into an address, put them in the midst of the address, not at the end as may be suggested by the provider if your chosen name is rejected when setting your account up.Sound common sense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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