How to be safe from Spaming

Always follow these rules for being safe from Spams:

* Never mention your personal and professional Email address in any of the Discussion forums, news groups, chat rooms, scraps[orkut], or in soical networking sites.

• Remove /hide your email address- if you have mentioned it in the "Profile" Section of any of the website you use, like- Orkut, Hi5, MySpace, Blogpost, Yahoo profile etc...
  

* Use a different Email ID other than your personal or professional Email ID to register for newsletters
* For registering at different sites use a constant email address something like reg_yourname@gmail.com and redirect the mails coming to this Id to a predefined folder (Yahoomail) or mark it with a label(Gmail). Create Rules for this available in settings of every e-mail services.

* When disclosing your email address in public use a different email address other than your personal e-mail address.
* If you are a Yahoomail user, use a feature provided by yahoo called "Disposable mail". This allows you to create e-mail aliases. You can use different aliases for different purposes, like for registration purposes create an address like yourname-reg@yahoo.com, for public sharing your ID create an address like yourname-pub@yahoo.com. The add-on is that you can redirect the mails sent to you in a predefined folder and when you start to get spams on that address you can simply delete that email-alias and enjoy to get certain for not getting any spams further on that email address.

• NEVER NEVER forward emails sent to you to all of you in your address book or a group of people in the address book just for fun. If required, forward the mail to only selected people.
• When you do So, you send an open invitation to the spammer to spam you as all the addresses mentioned in the TO or CC or BCC fields are sent to the spammer as well.
  
• You can Also copy paste the content and compose a new email from the old message for being safe

I will be sharing some more email security tips as time allows...

Spamming...nightmare to everyone

Spamming has been a real nightmare to everyone from the days the webmail has been popular.
Some years back when I was in high-school, I was much disturbed by spamming as I started getting hundreds and hundred of spam mails all of a sudden.

The reason was, I had registered myself at some websites and shared my ID in some discussion groups. Spammers' spiders figured out my Email address and I was bumbarded with the spams that all contained ads and obscene contents.

Inspired by the personal necessity then, developed a software called "Spamocide" for controlling spams on the Internet. The main idea working behind the scene was to create a continually growing "black-list database" of spammers and use that for identifying spams or even stopping directly the spammers to send spams. The product had initial success and i showed the product in some national level software exhibitions but further I did develop it as I was much busy then in my studies.

Those was the initial days when spamming had just been started on the net and my idea and the software worked fine. But Now the scene has been totally changed as day by day new methods and techniques of spamming arouse. All the major web-mail service providers and E-mail client (software) vendors have their "Anti-spam" cell and department which continually fight spam.

Google has been successful in providing web-mail service with better spam-identification and removing features. I conducted a personal test for spamming with all the major web-mail vendors like Gmail, Yahoomail, Sify, Rediff and few others and the best performance for identifying spams was of Gmail. So I trust Gmail for all my personal and professional communications.

I continually do study on spamming and anti-spamming world of technologies.
Domain-key and SPF has been trusted algorithm for identifying the spammers' domain.

Recently I read this article , actually a research paper of one of the Gmail-guy. He describes how the Google identify the spammers' domain. Read it here.

I will be sharing on spamming and anti-spamming in days to come.
Ant-ispammed and safer e-mailing till then...!