How to Get Rid of Spam
When using an email address, eventually unwanted messages begin to flood your inbox. Over time, some email accounts can feel unusable; there's no way to find the personal and business messages you want through all the spam. Learn to use your email so you'll be well on your way to a clean, pleasant email experience.
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Consider having more than one email account: one for friends and family, and one for Internet newsletters and accounts. Any time you need to sign up with an online service, use the second email. This ensures that if that information is sold to spammers, it's at least not flooding the inbox you go to for personal mail. This "spam" email is one you only check when you sign up for something, making it easy to tell what is and isn't spam.
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When posting your email on websites or in social networking systems, type it out as "email @ domain . com" OR "email (at) domain (dot) com."
This prevents spam bots from being able to copy your email from the Web page and add it to their database. Most people know to remove the spaces or change the "(at)" and "(dot)" to "@" and "."
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Use your email provider's filter function. Some of them are better than others, but if you get email you know is spam, use the built-in functions to mark it as spam. This will prevent more emails like it from entering your inbox.
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Unsubscribe from newsletters you no longer want to get them to stop appearing. Most newsletters have this option at the bottom of each email.
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Tips & Warnings
Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail offer free email accounts.
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