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5 Tips how to avoid Spam!
Spammers pick email addresses like kids pick blackberries. They always go after the low-hanging fruit first.
So it follows you should make yourself as hard to reach as possible. Here are three easy things you can
do right now to avoid landing on a spammer's email list:
- For everybody: Whenever you fill out Web registration forms, surveys and so on, avoid typing in your email address. If you are required to do so, look for a box that asks you if it is okay to send similar offers or information to you. Make sure you say no.
- For everybody: Request Net directories (such as WhoWhere, Four11 and Switchboard) remove your name, email address, and other personal information from their databases.
- For List subscribers: If your list administrator allows it, anyone can effectively spam you by issuing a simple command via email to display nearly every address on the list. Send a request to the list administrator asking him or her to shield you from such postings.
- For Newsgroup posters: Disable your easy-to-grab email address by inserting asterisks or words (for instance: you@NOSPAM.yourdomain.com, or you@yourdomain**.com). Then add a line at the end of your posting that gives your true email address.
- For America Online users: Delete your member
profile right now. All that personal information is a spammer's dream
come true.
Even if you are already getting spammed, you need to take steps to make your email
address less accessible and less attractive. Because -- just as there is an infinite
number of kids who will pick as many blackberries as they can carry -- there
are always more spammers eager to add you to their bucket.
Contact Information
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Tel: (613) 742-5453
Fax: (613) 748-5772
Email: info@ottawaonline.com
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