Avoiding Spam

# isit any of the twelveteen bazillion free email web pages, such as Hotmail, Juno, or Yahoo, and get a free secondary e-mail account. Then use that account as your return e-mail for when you do public posts to newsgroups and message boards. Most newsreaders usually let you enter what e-mail shows as your return address.
First, don't enter your main e-mail address here, but your secondary e-mail.
Second, add the phrase no-spam somewhere in the e-mail address. That way, every person who wants to send you a serious reply, knows to remove the no-spam part. But any spammer that automatically harvests e-mail addresses will get a bad address.

# Don't give out your main e-mail address freely. Think about who you give it to. Use it only for personal e-mail to work or friends, don't use it in forms that you fill out (paper or online). Use the secondary account instead.

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