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Electronic mail, telex, and fax http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/7.html
like.
Example: One of my addresses used to be presno@grida.no. By instructing my news reader
to show it as presno@remove this bit for my real address, the information is made useless
for spam software.
Note: You are making it difficult for those you talk with when doing this. I wouldn't.
You can also buy mail related utility programs, like MailJail, a mail filtering add on for
the Eudora email programs. It's first release came with 250 rules to help thwart spam
mail.
Some users even join initiatives like the SPAM Filter, a free register of people who
do not want to receive junk mail. It aims at using their list to filter their addresses against
addresses collected by programs such as Floodgate (which automatically builds mailing
lists from newsgroup ostings).
Others report the incident to the spammer's Internet service provider (ISP). If you
do, make sure to save the original email message with all headers intact. The email
header is the part of the message that shows where the message originated. While your
email program may not be set to display email headers, most programs let you do it.
Generally, ISPs will not take action against one of their accounts without proof of the
origination of the spam. They often require the original spam message to be forwarded to
them before they will take any action, with the email header included.
Then, there is HTML email. These permit inclusion of illustrations in messages,
thus forcing a call to get them from a remote site when the mail is opened. When it does,
the remote site will be able to record your email address, know if you have indeed
opened (read?) the message, and your current IP address. The sender of the message
may also be able to set a cookie in your browser, and thus identify you the next time you
visit their site...
The good news is that some email clients, like Eudora Pro, allows you to prevent it
from automatically downloading HTML graphics. Recommended, and in particular if
you're using modem.
Finally, Whenever you subscribe to an email based mailing list, save the welcome
message that the service returns on your disk. These messages usually contain
information about how to get off the list if the volume should become too high. You may
find it easier to consult these files than try to get off by writing the mailing list
administrators.
There's a FAQ on spam, a SPAM L mailing list, hints on reading email headers,
and a tutorial for those in search for more.
Purportal.com lets you search five of the most well known sites dedicated to
setting the record straight: Snopes Urban Legends Archive, About.com Urban Legends,
CIAC Hoax Database, CERT Computer Security Database, and Symantec (Real) Virus
Encyclopedia. Last, but not least, there are a number of laws against spam.
Managing your mailbox
If you receive a large volumes of email, it becomes important to organize your mailbox
to handle the most important mails first. Here are some hints:
Consider using filters (message rules) to automatically move incoming mails to
logical folders of your choice. For example, if you work in sales, you may move
messages to folders called New opportunities, Follow up, Internal, and Private.
Then, consider how much time should be allocated to handling the mail in each
folder. Spam and mail from new persons will not be moved, and thus easier to
handle. In MS Outlook, you may do this by clicking at Organize, or by selecting
Tools | Message rules.
Another trick is to give each mail from a known sender an automatic color code.
For example, mark all mails from customers with red, those from members of your
family with green, and mails from your boss with blue. Mails from new persons
will have no color, and easier to single out for handling.
If your email program can handle it, consider making copies of all received mail to
an archive mailbox of your choice. Personally, I keep all important mail on my
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