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If you are already being deluged with spam, consider changing your email address. And rather than using one new address, use three or four.

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For example, write it in a way that people can read but most software can't: Try to keep your "real" address secret by giving it only to close friends and reliable companies, and make sure you never publish it anywhere in harvestable form. J i m d o t S m i t h %at% abc.co.uk, or whatever. If you are obliged to provide a dubious source with a working email address, use a Yahoo or Hotmail address created for the purpose. Indeed, SpamCon and other suppliers offer DEAs or disposable email addresses that can be used for posting to Usenet newsgroups and similar purposes.

Remember, you don't have to provide any truthful information in order to get a web-based email address. You can certainly lie about your age, and I always give a date of birth that makes me less than 10 years old. This used to limit the amount of porn and financial spam I received, though standards have clearly fallen over the past few years. When it comes to reading email, the best approach is to delete all the spam first. To do this in Microsoft's Outlook Express, turn off the Preview Pane: go to View|Layout and untick the box that says Show Preview Pane.

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That way, you can select and delete spam without seeing the contents - and without giving messages the chance to ask to dial out or download anything from a website. If you go to View|Layout and click the button marked Customize Toolbar, you can put a Preview Pane icon on the toolbar. This lets you turn the Preview Pane on or off with a single mouse-click. I delete almost everything that has no Subject line, or where the subject line is all in caps (I AWAIT YOUR RESPONSE), anything with my email address in the Subject line, and anything with odd letters at the end (t cct f). I'm sure I delete some real mail along with the rubbish, but I'm well past caring. In fact, I get so much spam at some addresses that I have opened folders called Real Mail. I move the tiny minority of messages that don't look like spam to the Real folder and just delete the rest. Of course, life would be easier if the spam could be deleted automagically. This is done by "mail filters," of which there are two basic types. In the first case, spam is identified by its characteristics - the use of certain combinations of words, for example. In the second case, it is identified by human beings, who add a rule to the filtering software to remove that email. The problem with using rules is that filtering software will always let some spam through while also blocking some real mail. Also, spam filters may well block newsletters and other mass mail items: you often have to add these manually to your "whitelist" - your list of friends' addresses. Nonetheless, filters can block a lot of obvious spams.

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In fact, a new breed of filters using Bayesian analysis may prove to be almost as good as humans: see Examples include Spam Bully and Spammunition for Windows, and SpamSieve for Mac OS X. Since people are generally good at spotting spam, the alternative is to have users identify it, and forward their spam to a blacklisting service. If someone reports a spam email immediately, this can save millions of people from receiving copies of the same spam later. The most interesting example of this cooperative filtering is Cloudmark's SpamNet, which currently has about 300,000 users.

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It is a free service, but it only works with Microsoft Outlook.

Of course, many filtering systems use a combination of the two approaches, and this is probably the best way to go. There are at least three ways to have your mail filtered for spam. The first is to sign up for a filtered mailbox. Technically, Hotmail and Yahoo fall into this category, since they let you set up a junk mail folder to hold spam. The problem is that their filtering is not very good. Better services are offered by SpamEx, SpamCon and others. One big advantage of filtering systems is that they usually let you block mail on the server, before you have downloaded it to your PC. The blocking can be done for you, by an ISP, or you can do it yourself. Brightmail is the market leader in blocking spam for ISPs.