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Enable
NOSPAM
You can enable NOSPAM for any account
any time by clicking on the NOSPAM icon above or in the account's control
panel and filling out the short request form.
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NOSPAM Guide lines
Spam, or unwanted commercial email, is a growing problem for every Internet
user. Latin America's NOSPAM
service is the best tool on the market for reducing your spam, but there
are also a number of "good practices" that will reduce your exposure
to spammers, and make your email more efficient again. Our email "good
practices" are listed below, and additional spam tools are described
on the next page:
Fighting Spam -
Tools
- NEVER RESPOND OR UNSUBSCRIBE TO SPAM
The promise is to take your name off the list, but it's a lie. Your
reply will simply confirm that they've got a live address. Also, if
you respond, they'll sell your address to every other spammer on the
planet.
- DON'T POST YOUR ADDRESS ON YOUR WEBSITE
Posting your email address on your personal home page is just an invitation
to spammers. Spammers have software that "harvests" email addresses
from web pages. Any email address on a public web page WILL be spammed
- guaranteed. To defeat this tactic, use either a contact form, or
mask your email address. Instructions on how to do create a web page
Contact Form are on our Form-Email
page. To mask your email, use our Email Encoder,
on Fighting Spam - Tools.
- THROW AWAY BAD EMAIL
The Default mailbox acts as a catchall box for all email sent to your
domain for which there isn't a mailbox - a great idea originally,
but now most is spam. It is automatically set up to forward to the
mailbox with your username. If you want to send unassigned email into
oblivion:
- Create a new email box called:
/dev/null
- Click on the /dev/null box in
your mail manager and set it to forward to /dev/null
- Click on the "Default" box link
in your mail manager and set it to Forward to the /dev/null box
- This will send all unassigned
(not sent to a working email box name) into no-where'sville and
will keep your mail folder from filling up.
- USE MORE OF YOUR MAILBOXES
Take advantage of the 75 mailboxes (Standard package) your account
offers and create boxes for different uses, like ebay@, newsletter@,
etc. It's easier to identify if one of these places has sold your
email or if an address has been compromised. Newsgroups in particular
are the great email address gathering ground for spammers. If you
post to a group, you will get spam -- it is just a matter of time.
Use a disposable email address rather than the one you use for talking
to friends and relatives. In other words, have a public address and
a private address. You'll just have to deal with the spam in your
public account, but if you find too much spam coming in to it you
can change it to a new address.
- DON'T GIVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WITHOUT
KNOWING HOW IT WILL BE USED
If a website is asking for your email address, they want to use it
for something. Be sure you know what. Read the terms of use and privacy
statements of any site before telling them your address. Ask yourself
some simple questions. Are they going to share or sell my address?
Do I want emails from this website? Do I trust them? Is it worth the
risk? If you can't answer these questions satisfactorily, if you can't
find their privacy statement, don't tell them your address.
- NEVER BUY ANYTHING ADVERTISED IN
SPAM
The reason that people spam is because they can make money. They make
money, like all advertisers, by convincing people to buy a product.
If no one buys the things advertised in spam, companies will quit
paying spammers to advertise their products.
- USE OUR SPAM
TOOLS AND SUGGESTIONS!
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