Colin Jensen

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Everybody suffers from spam at some point, so here’s some tips on fighting spam.

1. Be very careful entering your email address on websites.  Some websites sell this information on to advertising company’s who then spam your inbox.
2. Keep your personal/business email account separate. Get your self a free Hotmail account at http://www.hotmail.com and use it for filling in on-line forms.
3. Google’s Gmail has the best Junk Mail filter I have ever seen! Creating an email address with Gmail is free and I would highly recommend this.
4. RING THE INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER. Ring your ISP whether it’s BT, Tiscal, Aol etc and see what they have to offer.  If they try to sell you anti-spam software then DO NOT ACCEPT.  Software based anti-spam filters work by looking at the emails once they are downloaded on your computer, we want it to be deleted BEFORE you download it!
5. If you own a domain based email address such as matt@mybusiness.com, contact who ever hosts the email and tell them your problem.  If they have access to the machine/server hosting your emails they should be able to install anti-spam software such as Spam Assassin.  Ask them about this.

Please note this is just a small guide on how to prevent spam. If everything fails, why not just create a new email address?