Part 3 - Protect your address

• When asked for your email address on website forms think about who you are submitting these details to. Read their privacy policy and make an informed choice. Perhaps you can use a throw away email account just for this purpose. Use your real address for official communications or if you trust the firm. Some websites may collect address and sell them to spam list collectors
  

• NEVER give your real email address to guest books if it will be displayed to everyone. The problem is not that people will see it rather that email address harvesting software will

• Never post messages to the Usenet or other news groups with your real address. It is safer to use a throw away email account. By using such an account any spam you receive goes to a non important mailbox
  
  
• When signing up to services on websites you may be asked if you like to receive special offer. It's probably wise to decline this offer. Many of these offers are run by other companies so be careful.
  
  
• Learn how to access full email headers from your e-mail client. This is essential to report junk email so that can be traced. (guide coming soon)
  
  
• Read End User License Agreements (EULA), privacy polices and Terms of service agreements when you install software or sign up for a service online. Otherwise you may agree that your email address will be distributed to potential junk email lists.
  
  
• As mentioned earlier NEVER use any opt out options because they are generally fake and serve only to validate your address as being real.