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:
If you wonder why you are getting delivery failures for messages you know you did not send, the cause may be a worm or a spammer, and it's probably not on your computer.
Make it more difficult for spammers to get your address by obfuscating it when you use it in newsgroups, forums and the like.
Once your email address gets in the hands of spammers, you will get spam. Lots of it. Find out how to use disposable email addresses to dispose of spam (and spammers) effectively.
Complain about spam the right way easily with SpamCop, which does all the analyzing for you and generates a perfect complaint email, too.
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.
Disposable email addresses can put an end to the spam you get from mentioning your email address on your home page.
You never know what might happen to an email address you use to sign up for Web sites or newsletters. It might be passed on to spammers.
Complain about spam to the right person.
Achieve a near spam-free email account by employing one of the great anti-spam tools that filter junk mail using all kinds of clever strategies.
Spam will, eventually, make it to any mailbox. Any? Here's how to make it hard for spammers to guess your address.
