Thursday, June 22, 2006

SPAM SPAM SPAM!

Most of us sick of receiving nonsense email in your inbox everyday. The same subject, the same info and stuff everyday. Such a waste of time when you receive those 'spam' and spend your precious seconds deleting them. Most of them advertised goods and services such like viagra (popular ones, i guess), pornography, quick-rich programs, MLM.. so on. That's the way of doing email marketing but not it's not an ethical practice. Mind your reputation.

What's SPAM?
Spamming is the use of any electronic communications medium to send unsolicited messages in bulk, indiscriminately -- unlike sending to a selected group in normal marketing. In the popular eye, the most common form of spam is that delivered in e-mail as a form of commercial advertising. However, over the short history of electronic media, people have done things comparable to spamming for many purposes other than the commercial, and in many media other than e-mail. ...

[wikipedia]


We can't totally stop spams but there's some ways to avoid them. if possible don't put your full email address in forums, bulletin boards, website, blogs. Spammers use special programs which harvest these and use them to build spam lists. You'll be their victim.

Try to use variations for your email address :

  • zulu [at] yahoo.com
  • zulu@REMOVE_THISyahoo.com
  • zulu@yahoo dot com
At least they can't detect the exact email address to their spam list. This will helps you a lot. Stop Spam. Say that 'WE HATE SPAM".

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

another method is to use graphic without link.

erk.. i thought your blog using wordpress..