Chapter 6. Spam: Unwanted Email from Hell
IN THIS CHAPTER
- What Is Spam?
- Why Does Spam Keep Coming?
- Specialty Spam
- Why Doesn’t Someone Stop the Spammers?
- How Do Spammers Get My Email Address?
- The Damage Spam Can Do
- Reduce the Flow—10-minute Tactics to Reduce Spam
- Kill More Spam—In an Afternoon
- The Absolute Minimum
This chapter explains why you get all those emails about cheap Viagra, amazing fat-fighting plant extracts, and attractive pillow-fighting college students. Yes, it’s a chapter about spam—the email kind, not the canned meat kind. In these pages I’ll tell you what it is, where it comes from, and what to do about it. It’s the amazing, natural, and safe chapter about fighting spam! No dangerous stimulants or damaging side effects! ...
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