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Top 20 Most Popular Anti-Spam Tips, Tricks and Secrets

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Spam, spam and spam. How to avoid spam, how to filter spam, and how to complain about spam are the items on this menu of junk mail fighting tips.

Only the tips most popular with other email users make it to this page, but other can be just as useful:

11. Make Sure Your ISP Doesn't Filter Your Newsletters as Spam

In a laudable effort to curb down on spam, many Internet Service Providers are filtering junk mail before it can reach you, and sometimes catch good mail, too. Here's how to talk to your ISP to make sure you're getting all your favorite newsletters without interruption.

12. More Email Addresses Mean More Spam

Spam behaves a lot like cars. Wherever you build a road for it it will travel, and it will always fill up all the available space (and more).

13. How Long, Complicated Email Addresses Beat Spammers

Spam will, eventually, make it to any mailbox. Any? Here's how to make it hard for spammers to guess your address.

14. Spam is Named After Monty Python's Spam Skit

Why unsolicited email is called spam. And spam.

15. Whether or Not to Unsubscribe from Spam

If junk mail that lands in your email inbox contains unsubscription instructions, does it make sense to follow them?

16. Use Bayesian Spam Filtering to Get Rid of Junk Email

Get rid of spam reliably, precisely and effortlessly with statistical means.

17. How to Submit Spam to SpamCop via Email

The shortest way from your Inbox to SpamCop is by forwarding your spam to SpamCop for analysis.

18. How to Filter Spam Using ISP-Supplied Junk Mail Headers

Maybe your Internet Service Provider runs a spam filter that changes messages subtly if it believes they are junk. Here's how to make use of this simple yet effective line of spam defense.

19. Don't Use "This is Spam" to Unsubscribe

The "This is Spam" button is an easy and effective way to get rid of spam, but you should make sure you use it only for spam. Otherwise, bad karma may not be the only unpleasant consequence.

20. Watch Out for Those Checkboxes

Make sure you don't opt in for emails you don't want, and watch out for checkboxes when you submit any form on a Web site.

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