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Legitimate businesses threaten our e-mail system with their misguided marketing efforts.
There are a few ways to evade spammers, but most will limit your reception of other mail too. But when it comes to avoiding spam, your options are, unfortunately, limited. Many of the most effective techniques for protecting your mailbox from spam have the side effect of limiting the ways that you can use the Internet. There are two fundamental ways to keep spam out of your in box. The first is to prevent spammers from getting your e-mail address in the first place.