Stop Spam: Manage Email Tips For Everyone
Unsolicited email wastes just about everyone's time, whether you own a website or not. It is possible, however, to take steps today, to reduce spam in your email inbox. This lens briefly discusses four ways of doing just that.
There is no need to understand gobbledygook like: using email spam filters, or anti spam filters using anti-spam (challenge response) software like spam blockers, or using anti spam disposable email addresses, or using advanced email encryption tactics like using mailto encrypters...
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Instead, reducing unwanted email is as simple as doing one (or all) of the following:
- 1) Using a challenge response system
- 2) Using disposable email addresses
- 3) Hiding your email address on your website
- 4) Filtering your email
Note: site owners and webmasters might also want to read this lens: stop web spam. Lens based on an article I wrote called Four Tips To Stop Spam, Today
Stop Spam Using a Challenge Response System
(Find links to help you do just that, below)
Challenge response systems shift the burden from the recipient to the email publisher. Each email sent by the publisher is first challenged by a challenge response system where it has to be confirmed by the publisher for it then to get through to the recipient. It is felt that spammers would be unable to confirm millions of messages.
Spam Arrest - Take Control of Your Inbox
Spam Arrest uses challenge-response technology to more...1 point
Eliminate SPAM
Free and Effective Anti SPAM Software1 point
SPAM Research Center - Challenge Response Antispam Freeware.
Free Challenge Response Anti SPAM Software.1 point
Stop Spam Using a Disposable Email Address
(Find links to help you do just that, below)
Disposable email addresses are email addresses that are, er, disposable. That means you register at a site, log in and confirm your details, and then you never have to check that email address again. Use a disposable email address whenever you are 'not sure', I guess.
spamgourmet - free disposable email addresses, spam blocker
spamgourmet provides spam protection using on-the- more...0 points
Stop Spam by Hiding Your Email Address
Find links to help you do just that, below)
Hide your email address! From what? From so-called spambots that collect email addresses and add them to spammer CDs. If you leave your email on a forum make sure it's not via a mailto: link (ask first) and if you're a site owner then visit http://www.squidoo.com/StopWebSpam :-) )
Stop Spam! (Scambusters article)
Is it possible to stop spam? Probably not -- but y more...1 point
http://willmaster.com/master/feedback/?recommended
Anti-spam feedback form (site owners)0 points
http://willmaster.com/master/spambotbuster/?recommended
Anti-spam email address (for site owners)0 points
Email Image Obfuscation
jgc's email address image generator (email obfusca more...0 points
Stop Spam by Filtering Your Email
(Find links to help you do just that, below)
If the email still gets through, then why not filter your email so at least you dont' have to read it...
MX Police Anti-Spam - Bulletproof your email
Enterprise Class Spam Protection for all organizat more...2 points
Protect Your Mailbox - Yahoo! Online Protection
Fancy being able to sort all your emails into diff more...0 points
Rules and tools to filter junk mail in Microsoft Outlook
How to use rules to filter all junk mail or spam f more...0 points
Hotmail etc. - help keep spam out of your inbox
Learn how you can use technology and common sense more...0 points
How to filter Gmail image spam - Lifehacker
Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Li more...0 points
Stop Spam! (Scambusters article)
Is it possible to stop spam? Probably not -- but y more...0 points
More SPAM DO's and DON'T'S
Things that will help you reduce spam in your email inbox
- DON'T use free email
- If you can possibly not use Yahoo! or Hotmail then don't. Use Gmail, or pay for an email account (and then set up multiple email addresses for different situations)
- DO read this interview by Will Bontrager
- "What are the best way to reduce spam in 2007 and beyond?" Programmer Will Bontrager answers...
What Bloggers Think About Stopping Spam
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Do you have any stop spam tips or horror stories? Please, do share...
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- meltingaway meltingaway Sep 25, 2009 @ 9:09 am
- Go to http://www.clancampbell.us/2009/09/10/vb-outlook-macro-for-sending-fn-reports-to-commtouch/ to get a VB Script (macro) for MS Outlook that will, with just a few clicks, report your spam to several anti-spam vendors. This macro was designed primarily to send Spam Reports to Commtouch, but I have added some additional reporting addresses. It's fairly easy to modify if you want to add some additional addresses for reporting spam. Once the macro is installed, you will have to allow macro's in your security settings and add a button on your toolbar. Once that is done, all you have to do is select the spam e-mails, and select the macro button. It will prompt you with an "are you sure" dialog, and once sent, it will prompt if you want to delete the spam. Hope this helps someone! -Wayne
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- Brittany Brittany Jan 11, 2009 @ 5:16 pm
- I always see people (when they have to write their email on a blog or something) writing things like:
thisismyemailaddress at hotmail dot com.
They say that spammers sometimes will just use a search engine to search the net for anything that looks like an email address, and then they will send spam to those email addresses.
thisismyemailaddress at hotmail dot com doesn't look like an email address to a computer, so spammers won't pick up on it.
I've started doing this too! Hope this helps someone!
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- RandyEadon RandyEadon Aug 21, 2008 @ 7:40 pm
- I've had accounts on various free email services, all of which suffered spam attacks every once in a while. I finally switched over to Gmail but realized that I still get crazy viagra spam. The great thing about Gmail is the "Report Spam" feature that seems to work really well.
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- gorkybo gorkybo Jun 2, 2008 @ 2:00 am
- Thanks for all your tips and advices. If only I can get rid of spam that arrive in my inboxes. Lots of spam emails arrive in my inboxes, but I don't know what they are and where they came from. Thanks to your lens, I now have some idea to counter this. If only there could be an antispam software. How about it. Maybe you know one, a really antispam software. Thanks.
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- MS_not_spam.org MS_not_spam.org Nov 23, 2007 @ 8:05 am
- Opt-out challenge response with Captcha is the best way, because it stops 100% of unsolicited mail. PC based systems still allow your mail server to get overloaded. Spamarrest seems to be something worth for $2 a month.
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