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eLearning Series:
Stop SPAM eMail Once & For All : Free Guide
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What
Can I Do About Spam?
Dealing with the
after effect of spam does not have to be like pulling teeth.
It can be easier than that. Of course it helps to know some
of the easiest ways to keep spam from ruining your online
experience.
Sometimes you
can receive so many spam’s a day that you could spend more
of your time deleting these annoyances than responding to
your legitimate emails. By the time you have finished messing
around with your emails, you could be far too frustrated
to be bothered with anything else. However, there are some
things that you can do to make your online experience a little
bit easier. There is some ways to keep spam from ruining
your day. Here is a list of some of those things.
Email
Filters
Filters are a
very effective way of managing or getting rid of unwanted
emails, but sometimes they can work too well. While they
can work very hard to keep your inbox from receiving spam,
they can also prevent you getting a lot of your wanted emails
as well.
Some of the worst
filter based systems for blocking spam are provided by your
very own ISP. This can be a big problem because these types
of filters do not let you control which emails that you can
let through.
Basically, these
filters search for common key words and phrases like Guaranteed,
free, and so on. Once these systems pick up on those key
words, it will automatically prevent those senders from sending
you emails again. That can be very annoying if such a keyword
is used by a friend or family member to describe the reason
they are emailing you in the first place.
If you would prefer
to use this type of method for spam prevention, let me suggest
that you get the type of filter that allows YOU to control
what content is allowed and what should be deleted. Here
is a link on this very subject: http://www.spamarrest.com
*Special Note:
Don’t be fooled by the “Smarter Filters” that are coming
on the market because while they do get smarter over time
and work particularly well at preventing spam, they are extremely
difficult for the average internet user to set up and use
regularly. So if you not particularly tech-savvy, you should
shy away from these systems.
Paid Email
Forcing people
to pay for every email they send would certainly put an end
to spam, but it would likely put an end to anybody sending
emails as well. The entire reason why most of use emails
is because it is a free service. That is the reason that
it is so popular in the first place.
Spammers would
find that paying for the right to harass you through your
inbox would definitely be a good reason to stop bothering.
However, it would also prevent the average user from sending
emails as well.
Of course, it
is inevitable that even if an internet company decided to
charge you one half of one cent to send an email, eventually
spammers would find a way to get around that as well. It
is the very technology. As honest people continuously search
for their online privacy; as lawmen continue to find new
ways to prevent spam; so do spammers continuously find methods
of beating the system.
Basically in most
of our efforts to prevent these spammers, we are accomplishing
one indefinite feat. We are making these people smarter.
They get smarter with every effort that we make to make their
irritating use of emails illegal. It is a very big waste
of time.
National
No-Spam Directories
These work basically
the same as the National tele-marketing laws do. There is
no such thing that works for the internet yet, but this is
the way it would basically be if there was such a law in
existence.
You would have
to call a special number or go to a web link, and place your
email address in a no call area. This would mean that if
any company wanted to send you spam, it would be completely
illegal, and they would be susceptible to criminal charges.
At this moment
in time, this type of law does not currently exist. It is
a difficult law to pass since it basically infringes on a
great many rights of the spammers. Yes it does stink that
they have rights also. If you would like more information
on spam laws check out this link. http://www.spamlaws.com
Complaining
to Spammer’s ISP
Complaining to
a spammer’s ISP is another route that you might take, but
it utterly useless. As there are no laws as of yet to prevent
them from sending you spam, there is little that you do about
receiving them. At least as far as it concerns the ISP.
These days spammers
are smarter than your average surfer. All ISPs can really
do is threaten to shut them down. That is not a permanent
solution because spammers just learn to use different methods
to get their emails out. They can do any of the following:
• Change their
e-mail’s return address.
• Change their title and/or user name
• Use multiple credit cards
• Use various forms of different identification
Basically, if
you learned anything from this area, it must have been that
complaining is really a waste of time because spammers have
far too many ideas on how to avoid ISP interference for the
ISPs to have any affect at all. In the end, the best things
that you can do for yourself is to try and follow some of
the easy techniques listed below for some pretty good tips
on avoiding annoying spam in your inbox.
Challenge
Response Filtering
This is a really
cool and easy method to use for dealing with spam. What this
does, is forces anybody that you have not already cleared
to email you to fill out a short form or click a special
link in order for their email to go through.
It also lets you
create a safe list. This is just a list of people that can
send you emails without making them fill out the form first.
Again the link for this can be found at http://www.spamarrest.com
The purpose of
using this type of system for keeping spam away is that it
is pretty rare for one of these companies to take all of
that time just to send one person an email. Of course there
is always the chance that some spammer that is in desperate
need for a life might just do that.
On the off chance
that one of the spammers does manage to take the time to
fill out this report, you can simply get rid of them by taking
them off of your safe list or just deleting and blocking
them permanently from your computer.
Some of the better
washers will hold many of the challenged emails in a pending
folder and let you decide yourself which ones to clear through
to your inbox. All this means is for those people that take
the time to fill out the form or click on the link, they
are still sent to a “maybe” box. This lets you decide manually
which to keep and which emails to get rid of and block. In
a way, it’s one of the best methods out there right now.
Mail Washers
This method is
an extremely effective way of dealing with spam. What it
does is it lets you check and/or scan your emails before
they even reach your inbox. This is a rather cool way to
deal with unwanted spam.
If you can combine
this method with a challenge response system, you can ensure
that your inbox remains 100% free of spam and email viruses.
Really, isn’t that why you are reading this guide in the
first place?
 
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