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What Can I Do?
Dealing with the after effect of spam does not have to be like pulling teeth. It can be easier than that. Of course it helps to know some of the easiest ways to keep spam from ruining your online experience.
Sometimes you can receive so many spam’s a day that you could spend more of your time deleting these annoyances than responding to your legitimate emails. By the time you have finished messing around with your emails, you could be far too frustrated to be bothered with anything else. However, there are some things that you can do to make your online experience a little bit easier. There is some ways to keep spam from ruining your day. Here is a list of some of those things.
Email Filters
Filters are a very effective way of managing or getting rid of unwanted emails, but sometimes they can work too good. While they can work very hard to keep your inbox from receiving spam, they can also prevent you getting a lot of your wanted emails as well.
Some of the worst filter based systems for blocking spam are provided by your very own ISP. This can be a big problem because these types of filters do not let you control which emails that you can let through.
Basically, these filters search for common key words and phrases like Guaranteed, free, and so on. Once these systems pick up on those key words, it will automatically prevent those senders from sending you emails again. That can be very annoying if such a keyword is used by a friend or family member to describe the reason they are emailing you in the first place.
If you would prefer to use this type of method for spam prevention, let me suggest that you get the type of filter that allows YOU to control what content is allowed and what should be deleted. Here is a link on this very subject: http://www.spamarrest.com
*Special Note: Don’t be fooled by the “Smarter Filters” that are coming on the market because while they do get smarter over time and work particularly well at preventing spam, they are extremely difficult for the average internet user to set up and use regularly. So if you not particularly tech-savvy, you should shy away from these systems.
Paid Email
Forcing people to pay for every email they send would certainly put an end to spam, but it would likely put an end to anybody sending emails as well. The entire reason why most of use emails is because it is a free service. That is the reason that it is so popular in the first place.
Spammers would find that paying for the right to harass you through your inbox would definitely be a good reason to stop bothering. However, it would also prevent the average user from sending emails as well.
Of course, it is inevitable that even if an internet company decided to charge you one half of one cent to send an email, eventually spammers would find a way to get around that as well. It is the very technology. As honest people continuously search for their online privacy; as lawmen continue to find new ways to prevent spam; so do spammers continuously find methods of beating the system.
Basically in most of our efforts to prevent these spammers, we are accomplishing one indefinite feat. We are making these people smarter. They get smarter with every effort that we make to make their irritating use of emails illegal. It is a very big waste of time.
National No-Spam Directories
These work basically the same as the National tele-marketing laws do. There is no such thing that works for the internet yet, but this is the way it would basically be if there was such a law in existence.
You would have to call a special number or go to a web link, and place your email address in a no call area. This would mean that if any company wanted to send you spam, it would be completely illegal, and they would be susceptible to criminal charges.
At this moment in time, this type of law does not currently exist. It is a difficult law to pass since it basically infringes on a great many rights of the spammers. Yes it does stink that they have rights also. If you would like more information on spam laws check out this link. http://www.spamlaws.com
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