Email addresses can be obtained for free. Because they are free it is feasible to have a ‘throwaway’ email address: one which you will use for a few months then change. This  ‘throwaway’ email is perfect for when you must sign up for a service online with your email address.  Sign up, confirm the subscription, […]

There are literally hundreds of different programs and utilities to assist in blocking spam from ever appearing in your inbox. These programs are not 100% effective, but some will do an excellent job at weeding out unwanted mail. Spam blocking software works by recognising patterns in incoming emails, and it uses this pattern recognition (along […]

Putting your email address on the web - whether it be in a forum, on your personal or business website, in a yellow pages type site or even on a free-ads site, means that it can and will be found and used byspammers. Spammers automatically ‘harvest’ email addresses from any type of website - they […]

‘Can Spam’ isn’t a cryptic question, and in this context it doesn’t refer to a delicious tinned meat product. The Can Spam bill was signed in December of 2003 by President Bush and was approved 97-0 in a Senate vote. The bill sets out the first national standards dealing bulk unsolicited commercial email;emailers of unsolicited […]

Reports (see OMA Public Affairs and Communications Department) show that around half of all email messages received is spam. Spam is defined as unsolicited commercial email, usually manifesting itself as emails sent to users which relate to products or services in which they have no interest, sent by companies or organisations with which they have […]