Stop Email Spam, Anti-Spam, Reducing Unwanted Email

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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

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...

Lensmaster

Brittany wrote

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!

Reply Posted January 11, 2009

Lensmaster

RandyEadon wrote...

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.

ReplyPosted August 21, 2008

Lensmaster

gorkybo wrote...

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.

ReplyPosted June 02, 2008

Lensmaster

MS_not_spam.org wrote

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.

Reply Posted November 23, 2007

Lensmaster

SteveMNash wrote...

Well I'll start the ball rolling, Steve, with this tip: don't use your email address in feedback forms like this unless you know that it will not be used on a website! If you must use an email address, then change it a little - e.g. put YourName_NOSPAM-remove_@nospamYOURISP.nospamCOM or something.

ReplyPosted July 22, 2007