Are you fed up with spam? Once you enter the list of the web bastards, it is very difficult to get out of it. I know some people who receive more than 100 spam emails a day.

Here you can find a few effective ways for avoiding spam..

1. Never reply to the emails claiming “if you don’t want to receive this email any more, reply to …..” Such replies?indicates a life?sign for those bastards.
2. Do not use Outlook’s rule based spam filter. It proves no use.
3. Use DNSBL based anti-spam tools. They identify spam mails by using DNS based blacklists and provide almost %80 protection. Some freeware tools:
   1. SpamAssassin: http://www.spamassassin.org
   2. MailWasher: http://www.mailwasher.net
4. Use P2P based antispam tools. They benefit from huge P2P networks for identifying spam emails and provide aproximately 95% protection againist spam. Some freeware tools:
   1. Cloudmark: http://www.cloudmark.com
   2. Razor: http://razor.sourceforge.net
5. Use trainable bayesian filters. They learn from your emails and provide almost 99% protection for spam. Some freeware filters:
   1. Spamihilator: http://www.spamihilator.com
   2. Squirrelmail: http://www.squirrelmail.org
   3. PopFile: http://popfile.sourceforge.net
6. Fight back! Use the tools, which lets you return the spam mail to the sender. If the web bastard sending the spam evaluates these returns he or she will think that the email address exists no more. Mailwasher provides such a tool.
7. Trap them! Use special mail servers, which can hold mail connection of spam senders open (i.e. several hours), and can dramatically reduce the productivity of the spam sending equipment. For more information: http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/teergrube.en.html?