Ten Tips to Stop Spam
After receiving dozens of unwanted messages, a natural reaction is to fire off a nasty missive. Resist the urge. It could backfire, resulting in more, not less spam.
7.Opt-out.Some websites require you to register to use their services. Before you do, review the site's privacy policy to see how it uses your personal information like your e-mail address. If the site sends out commercial messages, you should be given a choice whether you want to receive e-mail from the site or from its third party partners. If you don't want to hear from them, be sure to check the No box. In other words, just say no.
8.Remove your address from directories.Your address may be listed with people finder services, such as Yahoo! People Search and other directories that are goldmines for spammers. To prevent your address from being harvested, e-mail these lookup services and ask them to remove your name.
9.Report violators.A number of government agencies and private organizations accept complaints. Whether they can actually do anything to stop the deluge is an unanswered question. Among the ones to contact are:
You can also forward spam to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov.
10.Use your Delete key.Perhaps the path of least resistance is to highlight the offending message and delete it, banishing it to the trash bin. If everyone ignored spam, it would eventually go away.
Last update: Jan 15, 2010
