If you are getting unwanted advertising, it is usually because you have visited websites and left your e-mail address. Often, when you ask for downloads or when you order products, you will be asked to enter information such as your name and e-mail address. Avoid doing so. This information is sold, and you end up on many mailing lists.
Other times, spam just seems to arrive for no reason. Perhaps your e-mail address appears on a website somewhere and has been picked up by a program which hunts for addresses on the internet. Perhaps your address is in someone's address book, and that address book got hacked. There are many ways to get on a list. The bottom line: at this point, we all have to "Learn to enjoy the Delete button."
You can't prevent spam, but here are several things you can do to minimize it:
- Establish a yahoo or hotmail account, and use that address when a website insists you give them an address. Spam will then go to that address.
- Never try to write to a spammer and complain. That only lets them know that your address is "real," and they will give or sell your address to others.
- Never click on the "Remove" link at the bottom of spam. Again, this only lets them know you are real.
- Do not put your address on websites. Spammers use programs which search the internet for e-mail addresses.
- For further information, visit the following helpful website: http://help.pacifier.com/help/spam/prevent.html
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