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First, don't leave your name in a list. Be anonymous
The first thing you should is try to preserve your anonimity as much
as possible. Here are a few steps you can take.
- Never fill-in the user description fields of your web browser (more
specifically, do not fill the user-name field). Most sites you visit
can get it from your browser without even asking permission.
- Possibily you can put postmaster@localhost in the description fields
of your web browser (if it actually needs something). If you want your
readers to have your address, put it in your signature.
- Try surfing the net anonymously. My
own page about anonymous web surfing is a good place to start.
- Refrain from registering your actual mail address in servers you don't
trust (most magazines, and many more are impossible to trust).
- Refrain from providing your address in home pages. That is a BIG constraint,
but it may help since some address seekers are using web robots to get
them out of the published web-pages.
- Beware of mailing lists. They seem to be pretty immune of spams up-to-now
(even if there are some exceptions), but this could not be considered
a permanent feature and people could easily pump addresses out of mailing
lists.
REMOVE service of a spammer
Officialy, sending such a mail to one of the following addresses should
remove you from their lists.
Today, I really believe that this is useless (and most probably increasing
your SPAM-level rather than decreasing it). So, don't mail back to
these REMOVE services (the less you give your address, the better
it is).
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