How do I stop receiving spam?
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Spam or unsolicited bulk e-mail (UBE) can be very annoying and offensive. Spammers will use many unscrupulous methods to obtain your e-mail address so they can send you their message. The trick is to limit your exposure.
The first thing to remember is that you need to be conscious of where you publicly display your e-mail address. Is it on your web page, e-mail signature, or do you post messages in public forums? Spammers use automated programs to harvest e-mail addresses from these sources as well as others. Another recent method is to embed special information in HTML-formatted e-mail messages that returns your e-mail address to the sender.
The next thing to remember is to never respond to a spam message. Just delete it. Why? If you reply, you just told the spammer that "This is a valid e-mail address with an actual person behind it, so keep it on your list." Likewise, offers to delete you from the list are usually another ruse to validate their list.
Note that spam is not the same thing as e-mail bombing, which is a focused attack on your e-mail account and system.