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How to get rid of unwanted email

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Don’t:

Answer the spam messages. You’ll be on their hit list if you respond. Just ignore and delete the message in the hope that playing possum will convince the spammer that you’re a lost cause.

Give out your email address. Whenever you visit a website or buy an item from an e-commerce site, read the site’s privacy statement to determine whether it sells e-mail addresses and how you can ensure you don’t get on that list.

Join mailing lists. Unfortunately, mailing lists are a big source of email addresses. Spammers ‘harvest’ the addresses of all who post. Avoid that by not posting replies to the mailing list.

Use your main mail account for commerce. Instead, set up aliases or ‘dummy’ mail accounts under other screen names. These are e-mail addresses that you only use for discussion groups (bulletin boards, chat rooms and so on). You can easily delete them later or ‘empty out the rubbish’ (the spam) every week from these accounts with ease, diverting the bad mail to this account rather than your main email account.

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