Spam is a daily nuisance for all of us. It doesnt matter whether youre employed or unemployed. It doesnt matter if youre a CEO of a multinational or if youre a work at home parent - spam affects us all.



There are dozens of porgams available for fighting spam. The major problem is that most of these programs cost money.
What I am going to do is show you 5 different ways of combating spam - all costless.


1. Dont give out your personal email address.
This is stating the apparent but its the first big bad choice people generate. DO NOT use your personal e mail address for
sign up forms, competitions, surveys or any other nonsense that may result in you being spammed. Its much easier to prevent spam, by never giving out your personal email address, than it is to cure the problem once youre on 100s of junk e-mail lists.



2. Use a free e mail account
Set yourself up with a Hotmail, Yahoo or any other free of cost email account and make use of it as a spam holder account i.e. use it on all those popups or sign up forms that you *suspect* can try to spam you. You might then periodically check your free of price electronic mail account for both legitimate and spam e-mail and
delete the rubbish you do not want. This single step might save you never ending spam related headaches.


3. Use a disposable email address
You could also try a disposable e mail address from www.spamgourmet.com. This is a brilliant idea. Once youve registered your forwarding email address (your personal
e-mail address) with them you may then create
self-destructing e-mail addresses that stop working after receiving a specific number of emails.


4. Use a free spam filter.
Unfortunately even when you follow all the correct steps you might still wind up acquiring junk electronic mail . Theres only solution at that point - install a spam filter on your PC.
The best free spam filter Ive come across so far is Mailwasher. An excellent
script that will not cost you a penny.



5. Newsgroups and forums
Spammers love newsgroups and forums. They especially love the way people post their personal e-mail addresses there. It doesnt matter if its a paid, private or free forum spammers have their harvester programs hunting for e-mail addresses every minute of every day. If you have to post
your e-mail address then utilize the following format:

username AT domain.com. If that doesnt contruct sense then what I mean is instead of putting up as test@spam-site.com youd
post as test AT spam-page .com.

Spammers can harvest 35,000 email addresses per hour from newsgroups and forums - dont let your e-mail address become one of those.


There you have 5 simple, free solutions to drastically reduce the amount of spam you receive every single day. If you want to learn more about fighting spam then
drop by spam-site.com.