Post by kas on Mar 4, 2012 11:07:39 GMT -5
How to Stop Spam!
www.consumerfraudreporting.org/spam_howtoprevent.php
There is a way to stop the spam and it won't cost you a penny. Here's how, in 6 easy steps:
www.consumerfraudreporting.org/spam_howtoprevent.php
There is a way to stop the spam and it won't cost you a penny. Here's how, in 6 easy steps:
- Get a new email address. Most ISP’s (the phone or cable company that provides your internet connection) allows you to create from 5 to 10 email addresses at any moment. If you’ve run out of these, sign up for a free Yahoo or Gmail email account. Even if you already have one, just sign up for another. You can call this address something like yourname4family. This will be your secret email address for trusted friends and family.
- Get another new email address. That's right, you will need at least 2. Use a name like yourname4unknowns. This will be your general email address.
- In each address control panel, import names / email addresses from you existing contact lists. Both Yahoo and Gmail can import! But delete anyone clueless or not trustworthy from the first email address's contact list - you don't ever want to send them a mail from there!
- Now, using the first email address, yourname4family@yahoo.com, send an email to your trusted closed friends and family. Do not send it to
- casual acquaintances,
- people who are careless or clueless about using and maintaining anti-virus software on their computer,
- anyone who forwards email chain mails,
- anyone who sends out mass distributions with many email addresses in the TO or CC fields - that exposes your email address to people who you do not know.
- people, even family members, who seem to always have viruses and troubles with their computers
- anyone you don't know well
- any website sign-ups, mail lists, etc.
Aside from your closest and most trustworthy, computer friends and family; Keep this email secret!!!! - casual acquaintances,
- Now, the second email address is the one you give out to other friends and family, general use, when you need to sign up for a mailing, and anything else.
- Keep your old email address for a couple of months, until your sure that everyone is converted over to one of the two new email addresses. After that, you can ignore it, or discard it.