I don't know you! Why are you writing me! Mar 18 '01    Write an essay on this topic. Tweet Popular Products in Software Microsoft Windows 7 Professional From $21 Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 From $84 The Bottom Line You should only have to sort through emails you want. Do your part in stopping the Spammer! During my internet life, I’ve ran several mailing groups. No matter what, whether it’s a discussion group, or a picture group, there are always people that subscribe just to get email addresses. Rule #1: Even if it’s just a receipe group between you and your church group, Do Not list your email address in the main database. Do you enjoy newsgroups? There are a lot of people out there that turn to newsgroups for a variety of reasons. Possibly to share pictures of your pets, gather information, etc. If you access the newsgroup through your email (i.e. Outlook Express) your email address is published for all to see. How to change it? Open your email, click on “tools” “accounts” “news” “properties” and get your email address out of that box! It’s automatically put in for you, BUT you can take it out. Rule #2: People on newsgroups do not need to have your email address. Make sure you take out your email address before proceeding to newsgroups. If you want someone to know your email address, tell them directly. Okay, you knew I was going to get to it. Virtually every email provider provides a Block Sender feature. This is a good feature, but it doesn’t stop the person from mailing you. It just stops the mail from coming into your box. But, it’s worth a try. The spammer won’t hear from you, and possibly will drop you from their spam list. Rule #3: Use the block sender feature! Is it a real person emailing you? Have you tried emailing back and asking them to leave you alone? One thing that I’ve noticed works really well, is to reply to each email with “remove and unsubscribe” in the subject line. Don’t write anything else. This also works if the spammer is an automatic program. Rule #4: Reply to the piece of spam and mark Remove and Unsubscribe in the subject line. Another resort you may go to is to write to their isp. If their address is blah blah blah @home.com, you can write to postmaster @home.com or abuse @home.com, etc and report the spam to their Internet Service Provider. Most ISPs don’t want their customers spamming people, and will halt it as soon as possible, and might even restrict their internet access. Rule #5: Write an email to their ISP! You can try “postmaster” “abuse” “spam” “customer support” “help” etc. Okay, I hope this has helped you a bit. You shouldn’t have to deal with all that spam. You might try to deal with it, but if there’s too much of it, you might end up deleting that important email you were waiting for. Try some of these ideas, they might work for you!

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