Charchila
June 4th, 2002, 05:14 PM
I found this poll on Wall Street Journal... and sounded very interesting. It'd be great to know how the fellow eCharchans deal with spam... and know any tricks to avoid it.
I've been receiving a lot of spam recently, and all I could do is delete them. Thank god for those check boxes... all can be deleted at once.
I sometimes get personalized emails with my first name in it... and I can't recall whether I really subsribed to receive those emails. I guess my email address was sold to the third party even after they promissed me not to. But I've heard of a scam that will add your email address to their list (and probably sell it to other spammers) when you click on the link to Unsubsribe it... so unless its a known/popular site, be careful before you email them back with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or click on that link!
This is an easy one... to avoid spam, do not write down your email address at public places (i.e. message boards). There are "robots" or scripts that'll visit many websites just to collect email addresses (that follows the format: name@company.com). But sometimes you have to... in this case, this is what I do: nospam_name@company.com, so if someone wants to contact you... he'll remove "nospam_" from the front (if he/she is smart enough).
I've been receiving a lot of spam recently, and all I could do is delete them. Thank god for those check boxes... all can be deleted at once.
I sometimes get personalized emails with my first name in it... and I can't recall whether I really subsribed to receive those emails. I guess my email address was sold to the third party even after they promissed me not to. But I've heard of a scam that will add your email address to their list (and probably sell it to other spammers) when you click on the link to Unsubsribe it... so unless its a known/popular site, be careful before you email them back with "Unsubscribe" in the subject line or click on that link!
This is an easy one... to avoid spam, do not write down your email address at public places (i.e. message boards). There are "robots" or scripts that'll visit many websites just to collect email addresses (that follows the format: name@company.com). But sometimes you have to... in this case, this is what I do: nospam_name@company.com, so if someone wants to contact you... he'll remove "nospam_" from the front (if he/she is smart enough).