Clark talked with a computer-savvy listener about how to avoid getting those pesky spam mails. The caller has three suggestions and says he has eliminated 85-90 percent of his spam mail using these three methods:
1) Use two separate e-mail accounts. The first is your private account, which you only give out to your friends and those you trust. Your second account is your public account and is the one you use to register on sites and order goods online (the ways most spam is generated). For your public account, we suggest using one of the free e-mail services such as Yahoo or Hotmail.
2) Register your e-mail address with the Direct Marketing Association's e-mail preference site, dma.org. By entering your e-mail addresses in the provided form, you are automatically taken off the lists of those marketers who are members of the association. This "online opt-out" lasts for one year and you can request to be notified by e-mail when your year is almost up.
3) The third option mentioned was to register with Brightmail.com , but the site has since reached its quota of accounts and is no longer registering new e-mail addresses. However, the site is still filtering spam through its corporate relationships with certain ISPs. So if you have one of the following, you can contact your ISP to inquire how you can benefit: Earthlink, AT&T, Worldnet, Visto, Hiwaay Net and Arkansas.net.
For more spam-fighting resources, check out Spamcop's site.
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