Cum sa mai scapi de blestemul spamului
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1. How to Stop Spam with Disposable Email Addresses
You’ve read it here, and you know it well: using your real, primary email address anywhere on the web puts it at risk of being picked up by spammers. And once an email address is in the hands of one spammer, your Inbox is sure to be filled with lots of not-so-delicious spam every day.
Stop Spam with Disposable Email Addresses
But what should you use instead of a real email address?
A disposable email address will forward all mail to your real address. So where exactly is the benefit? Won’t it forward all the spam, too? Not if you dispose of it.
What To Do When You Get Spam
As soon as you get spam through a disposable address, you disable it, and all messages (and all spam) sent to the disposable address bounce back to the sender instead of your Inbox.
Since (and this is a crucial point) you give every disposable email address to precesely one web site or contact, you know exactly who spammed you or leaked the address to spammers.
For the same reason turning off a disposable address has no impact on all the other mail you receive through your real address and (preferably) other disposable email addresses.
2. Watch Out for Those Checkboxes
When you sign up for something on the Web, there is often some innocent-looking text at the end of the form saying something like: “YES, I want to be contacted by select third parties concerning products I might be interested in.” Quite often, the checkbox next to that text is already checked and your email address will be given to you don’t know who.
To avoid that,
- look closely at every form you fill on the Web and
- make sure all relevant checkboxes are not ticked.
Sometimes, the text will read: “NO, don’t give away my email address,” and the checkbox will consequently be unchecked by default. Check it.
3. How to Disguise Your Email Address in Newsgroups, Forums, Blog Comments, Chat
pammers use special programs that extract email addresses from chat rooms, web sites — forums and comment sections of blogs in particular — and Usenet postings.
Disguise Your Email Address in Newsgroups, Forums, Blog Comments, Chat
To avoid ending on a spammer’s mailing list when you post to a web forum or a newsgroup, you can
- disguise your email address by inserting something obvious into it.
If my email address is email.guide@about.com, I can modify it to read email.guide@ABOdelete_thisUT.com, for example. I will not get spam at that email address since all messages to it will bounce, but people who want to send me an email can still do so after they remove “delete_this” from the address.
Obscuring your email address does make sending mail a bit more difficult.
But this is not always a disadvantage.
Automatic Email Address Obfuscation
Email address encoding tools take the obfuscation a step further. While primarily designed for use on web sites, you can also use addresses encoded with such tools on web forums or web-based usenet, for example.
4. How to Use Disposable Email Addresses at Your Web Site
Using disposable email addresses in forms on the Web and for mailing lists is a great way to stop spam.
With a little effort you can even use them on your home page, too, and allow legitimate mail from unknown senders while keeping out spam.
Use Disposable Email Addresses at Your Web Site
Use a disposable email address in the mailto: links on your site instead of your real one. Depending on the mail that comes in, you take two different sets of actions:
If a stranger sends you a legitimate email that you welcome, she gets her own special disposable email address. Create a new disposable email address and send a reply including the information that any further emails should only be sent to the new, dedicated disposable email address.
Make sure you also set the Reply-to: header to that new disposable address. If spam arrives at the disposable email address posted on your home page, disable the address immediately and replace it with a new disposable email address. This will stop all further spam sent to the old disposable address, but it won’t hamper mail from all the welcome senders since they already have their own dedicated disposable email address.
(Of course you can also give welcome senders your real email address instead of a dedicated disposable one if they claim that “you don’t trust me.”)
5. Domain Owners: Set up Throwaway Addresses to Fight Spam
f you own a domain, you have a great anti-spam tool at hand: your mail server. All mail to a address at your domain that does not already exist (such as “quaxidudel@ladedu.com”) is probably forwarded to your main account by default.
You can use this feature to create throwaway email addresses on the fly:
- If you need to give an email address to sign up for something, make one up.
For example, if you sign up for a newsletter at About, enter “about@ladedu.com” as your email address.
If you get spam, have a look at the spam’s headers. If about@ladedu.com shows up as the original recipient, you know who to blame: About. Nobody else even knew the address existed. Be aware, though, that spammers sometimes make up email addresses, and sometimes one they create can match one you created.
If the spam continues to arrive at the about@ladedu.com address, get rid of both the address and the spam by making any mail to about@ladedu.com bounce back to the sender.