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Good
morning,
Ah,
the joys of waking up to 105 email messages about diet weight loss, making
$5,392 from just a $19.97 investment, increasing the size of various swinging
appendenges, etc. Ever get an insane desire to lessen the junk to a dramatic
extent?
While
completely getting rid of spam is just about impossible, there are several
techniques you can implement to decrease it admirable. And here's how you
do it.
First
off, when receiving the fly-by-night spams (ie, faked addresses), never
ever ever use the 'click here to remove yourself' option. Why? Because
you've just validated your address! Almost certainly, it will now be sold
as an active address to thousands more spammers.
There
are some reputable firms, however, that honor remove requests (I've seen
some recruiter advertisers who do this quite well). Thus, always use your
judgement in industry-related cases.
Wouldn't
it be great to bounce spams back to the originator? You can! A rather neat
free tool you can use is called Mailwasher
at http://www.mailwasher.net
. You can scan your incoming messages before downloading them and automatically
delete and bounce the spams ahead of time. I use it quite regularly and
find it fantastic.
Another
resource you can take advantage of is Spamcop
at http://www.spamcop.net .
Here, you can forward all spams - the ISP of the person who sent them is
then notified. Again, use common sense with this resource - it's all too
easy to report a non-spam *as* spam by mistake (and that could cause great
grief to your fellow colleagues).
Other
good spam-fighting/tracking tools can be found at
http://www.samspade.org/
Anti-spam
reviews
Antispam
for Outlook
One
final note. If you're open to learning about compelling copy techniques,
sometimes actually reading spam that arrives in your inbox can be quite
educational. Getting people intrigued enough to click is a great marketing
skill.
ThankYouVeryMuch!
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