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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