Modus Operandi to Combat Spam

Having tough time handling spam mails? Read some of the techniques given below to combat the menace created by spams.

Filtering out certain keywords-If you carefully go through the trash emails in your email debris, you will be able to identify some common features of spam mails. Like most of them having subject lines that propogate, advertise, or promote a product or service. What you need to do is to make a list of all such dubious keywords and filter out those messages that have these dubious keywords in the subject line. Most email applications have tools to achieve this, so it will not be a big problem.

Making a list of wanted messages/emails-You may also set up a list of all those email addresses from which you want to receive emails. Most email applications have a provision for this too, for e.g. the tools menu in Outlook express that has a option Mail in Messsage Rules.

Installing a Spam checking Software- Well if you don't have the time or energy to do all this, you may go in for an anti-spam software that does the needful for you.

Not giving your email address if participating in online forums and other such things-Be careful while posting regularly on forums, newsgroups or message boards. Don't include your email address in the body of the message as spammers find such places as easy preys. You are actually inviting them to send you a pile of junk emails by doing so.

Using more than one email address-Have different email id's for different purposes. You can use each for a different purpose, like,personal, or business, or discussions, etc. or better still set up a webmail account on Yahoo or Hotmail for any secondary or not so important emails.

Use one or all of these techniques given above to have a life free of spams. Though you may not be able to completely eradicate spamming, but these tips will definitely help you limit and restrict the amount of spam mails you get everyday.

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