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Vital Tips on How to Reduce Spam
Never respond or unsubscribe to Spam.
What they really want to do is confirm that they’ve got a live address. Also, if you respond, they’ll sell your address to every other spammer on the planet meaning you’ll soon be flooded with even more spam.
Don't post your address on your email website.
Posting your email address on your personal home page is just an invitation to spammers. Spammers and the people who sell spamming as a business have software that scour and collect email addresses from the Net. This software crawls through the Internet seeking text that resembles email addresses. When it finds one, it catalogues it on a database of other email addresses to be used to send spam.
Be extremely careful where you submit or provide your email address.
If a website is asking for your email address, they want to use it for something. Be sure you know what that is. Read the terms of use and privacy statements of any site before giving them your address. Ask yourself some simple questions. Are they going to share or sell my address? Do I want emails from this website? If the answer is no, then don’t tell them your address.
Never buy anything advertised in Spam.
This tip goes without saying. The less money the advertisers make, the less chance there is for them to come back with more ads.
Use anti-Spam software.
If you keep getting the same spam message over and over, you should defintitely enable the message filters within your email software. You can also do so via your CPanel. These two options will allow you to selectively block incoming messages of your choice. Here is the online manual for the filters feature of your CPanel.
How to use Spam Assassin and Outlook Express to reduce Spam.
Follow these instructions in order to reduce the amount of Spam you receive in your inbox:
1. Enable and configure Spam Assassin in order for it to flag possible Spam messages.
Spam Assassin Online Manual
2. Open up Outlook Express. At the top, click on 'Tools' then 'Message Rules'. From there select 'Mail'.
3. In the 'New Mail Rule' window, put a check in the box for 'Where the message body contains specific words'. Then put a check in the box for 'Move it to a specified folder'.
4. Now click where it says 'contains specific words' which is underlined and in blue. Type in: 'Spam detection software' as shown in the screenshot and click on 'Add' at the right. Then click on 'Ok'.
5. Back to the 'New Mail Rule' window, click on the word 'specified' in the phrase 'Move it to the specified folder'. This word should be underlined and in blue. Click on 'New Folder and then type in 'SPAM' or 'Junk Mail' as shown in the screenshot. Click on 'Ok' and then 'Ok' once more to return to the 'New Mail Rule' window.
6. You can now give this new mail rule a name, and then click on 'Ok' to finalize the process. Your Outlook Express will now direct all messages flagged by Spam Assassin into the SPAM folder you created.
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