Article: How Can I Prevent Spam?
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How Can I Prevent Spam?
Email -- we love to get personal email. We need to get our business email. But, do we need to get all the junk emails, too?
Back in the early 1990's, I remember checking my email one morning and finding a really neat one -- some creative computer science student from Hawaii had sent me his résumé. It took me a little while to figure out what had happened. This was my first-ever piece of spam. This kid had sent his résumé to everyone who had posted a message to any of the Usenet comp.sys.ibmpc newsgroups. Even after I knew what he did, I thought it was cool. Not too long after that, though, was the start of the most prolific Usenet spam -- the "green card lottery" spam.
Fast forward to 2005: I now receive about 250-300 emails per day, and it seems like 50% of t...
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