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Are you sick of spam email?
FOR PETES' SAKE DO NOT RESPOND TO ANY OF IT.
Tell everyone you know not to respond in any way. Do not unsubscribe, do not buy anything from those creeps. It just encourages them to keep spamming. If no one bought from them, they would go broke and have to get a REAL job.
They lie and exaggerate everything they promote.
DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING THEY SEND.
GROW MORE HAIR
RETIRE IN COSTA RICA
CLEANSE YOUR COLON
ENLARGE PENIS
ENLARGE BREAST
BE A POLICEMAN
BE A NURSE
BE SUPERMAN
BE STUPID BUY FROM ME.
If you go for any of their scams YOU are part of the problem...........
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
This is my plan/theory for avoiding spam.
Firstly, do not sign up for 'sketchy' mailing lists ;)
Then, do not post your email address anywhere. Robots 'crawl' the web looking for addresses posted online, and then they spam it. Y!A does a smart thing with the '...' at the end so the robot sends the spam to 'username@yah...' (or something like that) and it doesn't go through, and there's no spammo problem. But if your whole email shows, then the robot will send the spam to 'username@yahoo.com' and then that account gets spam. Bottom line, don't post it like an email. If you want to post your email on YouTube for example, put something like 'username at yahoo dot com', and this problem is virtually solved!
- JayJayLv 41 decade ago
No but i hate the Buy.com Deals/Alerts/Coupons I have about over 60 of them that i dont read i never reply anyways!
