Sri Lankan Students

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Tips for cutting down spam

1. Take care when giving out your email address: think twice about
subscribing to newsletters or providing your email address on
registration forms unless essential.

2. When you give out your email address always look for the option to
sign up for information from third parties ? and say no! Signing up
for these is an open invitation to spammers.

3. Consider carefully who you are giving your information to. You
wouldn't give out your home address or phone number to random
strangers so be equally careful with your online address.

4. Never reply to unsolicited mail, even if it is to unsubscribe. This
validates your address and makes it much more valuable to companies
that sell email lists. This also applies to the remove link that many
spammers include. Where possible do not even open mail that is
unsolicited.

5. Help the anti-spam tool to 'learn' about what is and isn't junk.
Identify false positives and inform it when it misses a piece of
spam. This helps build up accurate black and white lists, and
identifies the latest techniques spammers are using.

6. Never give out your email address for anything that isn't work
related. Consumer services can be some of the most pernicious
spammers around.

7. When using private email addresses, select an address that is
difficult to guess, using a combination of letters and numbers.


Source:
2006 ITNOW, WWW.BCS.ORG.UK