Spam Stopping Tip
A more commonly known spam stopping tip is to never ever ever reply to spam. By replying and expecting to be removed from the spammers list, you’ve confirmed your existence. Now that the spammers know they have a live email address, they’ll continue to send to you spam.
In the September 26 Webreference Update, I learned a new way to stop the spammers: turning off automatic HTML image downloading in your email program. When HTML image downloading is on, the email contents is downloaded from the spammers server, also letting them know that they’ve got a live one at the other end of that email.
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