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	E-mail Set-up Fighting Spam: Guidelines

Spam, or unwanted commercial email, is a growing problem for every Internet user. One World's NOSPAM service is the best tool on the market for reducing your spam, but there are also a number of "good practices" that will reduce your exposure to spammers, and make your email more efficient again. Our email "good practices" are listed below, and additional spam tools are described on the next page:
Fighting Spam - Tools

NEVER RESPOND OR UNSUBSCRIBE TO SPAM
The promise is to take your name off the list, but it's a lie. Your reply will simply confirm that they’ve got a live address. Also, if you respond, they’ll sell your address to every other spammer on the planet.
DON’T POST YOUR ADDRESS ON YOUR WEBSITE
Posting your email address on your personal home page is just an invitation to spammers. Spammers have software that "harvests" email addresses from web pages. Any email address on a public web page WILL be spammed - guaranteed. To defeat this tactic, use either a contact form, or mask your email address. Instructions on how to do create a web page Contact Form are on our Form-Email page. To mask your email, use our Email Encoder, on Fighting Spam - Tools.
THROW AWAY BAD EMAIL
The Default mailbox acts as a catchall box for all email sent to your domain for which there isn't a mailbox - a great idea originally, but now most is spam. It is automatically set up to forward to the mailbox with your username. If you want to send unassigned email into oblivion, we strongly recommend that you select the "Default" mailbox, and under "Reject Options", select this radio button option: "Reject messages and do not send an auto-responder."
USE MORE OF YOUR MAILBOXES
Take advantage of the 75 mailboxes (Standard package) your account offers and create boxes for different uses, like ebay@, newsletter@, etc. It's easier to identify if one of these places has sold your email or if an address has been compromised. Newsgroups in particular are the great email address gathering ground for spammers. If you post to a group, you will get spam -- it is just a matter of time. Use a disposable email address rather than the one you use for talking to friends and relatives. In other words, have a public address and a private address. You’ll just have to deal with the spam in your public account, but if you find too much spam coming in to it you can change it to a new address.
DON’T GIVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WITHOUT KNOWING HOW IT WILL BE USED
If a website is asking for your email address, they want to use it for something. Be sure you know what. Read the terms of use and privacy statements of any site before telling them your address. Ask yourself some simple questions. Are they going to share or sell my address? Do I want emails from this website? Do I trust them? Is it worth the risk? If you can’t answer these questions satisfactorily, if you can’t find their privacy statement, don’t tell them your address.
NEVER BUY ANYTHING ADVERTISED IN SPAM
The reason that people spam is because they can make money. They make money, like all advertisers, by convincing people to buy a product. If no one buys the things advertised in spam, companies will quit paying spammers to advertise their products.
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