Most
spam originates as a result
of you using your email address
when signing up for a web
site. This is when you are
required to give your email
address when you place an
order, receive a free gift
or to use the services of
the web site.
If
you were to sign up for 10
sites and just 1 of those
sites shares its address list
with someone else your address
can easily become part of
a massive internet industry...
Spamming.
Most
people use a single email
address. You give your email
address to 10 sites. When
one site shares or sells your
address, you will not know
which one did so.
Since
you used your address, you
are now in a position where
10 sites that you actually
want to receive mail from,
all share the address with
a number of spammers.They
all send to the one address.
There
are few options open to you,
some of them are excellent
at reducing and some can even
stop spam altogether.
There
are a multitude of spam filters,
most are effective on mainstream
spam and novice spam senders.
However spam is now a billion
dollar industry and the big
players spend a lot of time
working out ways to get through.
Apart from this, one of the
biggest disadvantage of spam
filters is "False Positives".
This is where a legitimate
email will get marked as spam
if the filters are too fine,
yet setting the filters to
discriminate less means that
more spam will get through.
If
you change your email address
you will guarantee you do
not get any of the spam again.
The drawback of this method
is that you now need to visit
all the web sites to whom
you have given your address,
to tell them of your new address.
And then, hope you don't tell
the original spamming site
the new address
