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How to be "Spam Aware"
Following these guidelines can greatly reduce the amount of spam you receive. Spammers "harvest" addresses from the Internet. Keeping your email address as private as possible can help keep it away from spammers.
- Avoid posting your email address to mailing lists, newsgroups, etc. Lots of mailing lists now have web archives. These archives are havens for spammers and can publish your email address for years!
- Don't put your email address on a web site! Automated web crawlers search the Internet looking for anything with an '@' sign to harvest.
- Don't give out your email address to random web sites. Some sites will sell your address to spammers. Read privacy policies carefully!
- If you do sign up for a service on the web, don't use your University email address. Use a free address (yahoo, hotmail, etc.), or even a fake one if a response is not important.
- Beware of free! Free offers, services, contests, etc. can be a ploy to gather valid email addresses to be sold to spammers. Even on the Internet, not much is really "free".
- Never reply to an email that promises to take you off a list. This is just a gimmick used to determine if your email address is valid. If you respond, you may receive even more spam!
- Sign up for spam tagging here:
- Set up filters to keep spam out of your inbox.
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