Ten tips for cutting down spam

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الهامة المتعلقة بتقنية المعلومات و لقد خصص العدد حيز كبير لموضوع ال(Spam)



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***Spam: prevention is better than cure***



1. Take care when giving out your email address: think twice about subscribing to newsletters or providing your email address on registration forms unless essential.


2. When you give out your email address always look for the option to sign up for information from third parties – and say no! Signing up for these is an open invitation to spammers.


3. Consider carefully who you are giving your information to.You wouldn’t give out your home address or phone number to random strangers so be equally careful with your online address.


4. Never reply to unsolicited mail, even if it is to unsubscribe.This validates your address and makes it much more valuable to companies that sell email lists.This also applies to the remove link that many spammers include. Where possible do not even open mail that is unsolicited.


5. Help the anti-spam tool to ‘learn’ about what is and isn’t junk. Identify false positives and inform it when it misses a piece of spam. This helps build up accurate black and white lists, and identifies the latest techniques spammers are using.


6. Never give out your email address for anything that isn’t work related. Consumer services can be some of the most pernicious spammers around.


7. If you’re having a significant spamming problem, talk to your IT department. They may be able to help with an alternative email address or set up an address that only allows emails from designated domains.


8. Remove email addresses from company websites to prevent them being harvested by spambots. Have an online form instead plus a phone number.


9. Preventing spam requires a joint international effort, so report spam, by sending the message plus the full header of the email, to sites such as www.spamcop.net which can then add the sender to their blacklists.


10. When using private email addresses, select an address that is difficult to guess, using a combination of letters and numbers.




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