Author: bill28099
Date: 2004-06-20 20:27
I too have been signed up with the NY Times for a number of years and to my knowledge have never received unsolicited email from them nor have they sold my email address to any bulk mailers. However, I have been in the IT business since the early 60's and always take precautions against spammers. A few simple rules will help reduce and protect you from these purveyors of garbage.
1) Never respond to spam and ask to be removed from their mailing list. This just lets them know they have hit an active email address, i.e., it encourages them to send more.
2) Never give out your "real" email address except to trusted friends and business associates. Use a throw away address to sign up for things (NY Times, eBay and this BB included), respond to warranty cards, ask for information and chat online. Hotmail, Yahoo, Netscape, etc., can provide you for free such an address. Some ISPs give you multiple email addresses, use one for this purpose.
3) Use an ISP who actively pursues spammers, AOL comes to my mind at the moment but there are others. It is my opinion that the Microsoft Corporation through its ownership of Hotmail actively promotes the generation of spam as corporate policy. Hotmail is trying to sell you storage space and counts junk/bulk mail as part of your storage allotment, which is also the smallest of the free services My Hotmail account attracts 100 times the amount of spam as does my personal email account. Even my Yahoo account only picks up a couple a day and they do not count junk/bulk mail as part of the 100 M of allotted storage.
4) Report all spam to your ISP and block those domains that are creating spam and from which you receive no email correspondence.
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