What are the best practices to use to prevent someone from receiving spam?
Although there are many opinions as to what spam is, there is some consensus that spam can be considered to be unsolicited, bulk, commercial e-mail. Spam has evolved from its beginnings as unsolicited commercial-based postings to usenet newgroups to current sophisticated attempts to steal users’ identities via phishing and or to market illicit goods by using measures to defeat anti-spam filters. Unfortunately, spam has become a ubiquitous part of life for anyone who sends and receives email. Although few things in life are certain, you can be assured that the battles between the spammers and those who try to defeat their tactics will continue, and that there will be no single solution that will do away with spam once and for all. There are, however, a number of steps that individual e-mail users can take to help reduce the amount of spam they receive. What was mentioned above bears repeating: there is no single solution or silver bullet that will take care of spam once and for all. In
