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    May 5, 2007
    3 Great Ways To Get Email Without Spam

    Is it even possible? Could there really be one way to get e-mail without spam let alone 3 ways? You bet there is and Mike, at Web Worker Daily, has posted them on his blog. They are kind of like a disposable phone, use it a few times and toss it. They are just in the event that you want to leave an e-mail address on one of those sites that could very well generate a flood of spam back to you.  Mike gives 3 solid and effective ways to dodge the spam bullet.

    Use plus addressing: This one works with GMail and
    many other providers. If your actual address if Chumley@gmail.com, then
    mail to Chumley+foo@gmail.com will get to you, as will mail to
    Chumley+43frog@gmail.com, or an address with just about anything else
    after the plus sign (you may be limited to six characters). If the
    particular plus-address turns into a spam magnet, create a filter to
    throw incoming mail away forevermore.

    "Use a disposable mail service: Try Mailinator, dodgeit, or PookMail
    (there are others of the same ilk, but those are the best known). No
    registration required; you just pick an address like
    SpotTheWonderHamster@mailinator.com and check incoming mail through
    their web interface or via an RSS feed. Drawback: anyone who guesses
    your address can check your incoming mail too. These services are great
    when you want to get one piece of mail from someone like a used car
    salesman who you never want to hear from again in the future.

    Let Contactify do the work:  Instead of putting your email address on your web site, take two minutes and sign up for a contact form at Contactify.
    They’ll give you your own dedicated link to a captcha-protected contact
    form on their own site. Readers who want to send you a message fill out
    the form, solve the captcha, and click OK; Contactify forwards the
    message to your email address, which they never hand out. If you don’t
    have the skills or software to implement your own captcha, this is a
    free way to get the same level of protection from address harvesters
    and spamming robots".

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    What a great post. And could I ever use some help in eliminating spam. Thanks so much!

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