Stop the Spam with these Three Levels of Defense

Buying a complicated spam blocker program is not the best strategy to handle your unsolicited e-mail dilemma. The idea behind this strategy lies in using a multi-step process to take out the junk email you are now receiving. To get started with this strategy you can inexpensively purchase your own domain and web hosting service for less than $10 a month or you can subscribe to a free web-based e-mail service such as Hotmail or Gmail.
Your first level of defense is to use disposable e-mail addresses. Ideally, you should give each person or company you deal with a unique e-mail address. That way if someone starts spamming you just delete their e-mail address and immediately stop their spam. It works best if you own your own domain. The way to accomplish this is to have the e-mail addresses you hand out be forwarded to your main e-mail account. Unfortunately, you may not be able to give out unique e-mail addresses to everyone if you are using a free service like Gmail. Even if you have only three to five disposable e-mails to work with you can still gain a high level of protection to your inbox.
The second element in our plan is an industrial-strength spam blocking program that is based on your e-mail server. The key point to remember here is that it must be a server based program. Not one of the weak PC add-on e-mail programs that you can download and install on your computer. Most web hosts use the Spam Assassin anti-spam program and the commercial e-mail services like Yahoo and Google have their own versions of this type of program. These programs filter out the spam in two different ways. They have access to large anti-spam networks that actively compile and identify new spam mailings. Once a mailing is identified everyone in the network is alerted. This whole process is automated with software and an alert can be triggered within a matter of minutes after the spammer begins mailing. Next they employ complex Bayesian spam filters and Markovian discrimination algorithms to stop the nasty spammers.
The third layer of defense against unsolicited e-mail lies in your ability to route the spam and sort your e-mail automatically after it is downloaded from the server. First of all, any e-mail marked as spam by your e-mail filtering program will go directly to a junk mail folder. That junk mail folder should be set to delete its contents within 15 days. Check the contents of the folder periodically to make sure nothing important is being deleted. You're going to find that some companies will send you more e-mail than you want to read even though you initially agreed to be on their list. I suggest you prioritize your mail and then put your high priority e-mail into a single folder and the lower priority e-mail into other appropriate folders. Since each e-mail source will have its own e-mail address it is easy to set up the routing rules in your e-mail program.
Putting this plan into action will reduce the number of unsolicited e-mails getting into your inbox to practically none. It's very easy to do considering the small amount of time and money involved. Remember that you need all three levels of protection for this plan to work for you.

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