454 | Chapter 7: Networking and Internet
If you??™re already getting tons of spam, perhaps now is the time to change
your email address. Get your own domain name and create a bunch of different
addresses for different purposes, such as shopping@mydomain.com
for online shopping, auctions@mydomain.com for buying and selling on
eBay, subscriptions@mydomain.com for newsletters, and personal@mydomain.
com for correspondence with friends and family, and have them all go to
the same inbox. That way, if one of your addresses makes its way onto a spam
list, you can take down the address without disrupting the email to your other
accounts. Better yet, create a new email address for every site you visit, such as
amazon@mydomain.com, ebay@mydomain.com, nytimes@mydomain.com,
and annoyances@mydomain.com. That way, if an address starts getting spam,
you??™ll know who sold you out.
Do you receive email at more than one address? Use your
email program??™s Filters feature to sort through your incoming
mail and even mark individual messages so that when
you can reply, the correct return address is automatically
used.
Send Large Files
Clogging a friend??™s inbox with 20 megabytes of email attachments is a great
way to get your friend to configure a spam filter that automatically dumps
all your email in the trash.
If all you need to send is a few photos, emailing them is fine...as long you
shrink them down first. Your 8-megapixel digital camera creates 4 Mb files,
but your friends don??™t need full-resolution photos unless they??™re going to
print them.
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