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November 18th, 2008:

Use a Disposable Email Address to Get Fewer Spam Emails in Your Official Email Account

Spam emails are not just annoying, they can also cause harm to your files and computer. Spyware, viruses, and malicious programs can be transmitted to your computer through the use of spam emails. There are now many ways by which you can prevent spam from being sent directly to your inbox, and one of them is by using a disposable email address.

There are various disposable email address services on the Internet and these set up disposable email addresses, one for every sender/recipient combination. This is great for when you sing up for various chat rooms, discussion groups, file hosting services, and social networking sites. What’s great about using disposable email addresses is that these are tied to your offical email account, and once you receive emails, the disposable email addresses forwards them to your official email account. In case you receive spam emails from a specific disposable email address, you can just stop using that disposable email address to get rid of spam.

Disposable email addresses are convenient tools for getting rid of spam and for keeping your files and computer safe from viruses and spyware that spam emails can bring. Because disposable email addresses are used for specific contacts, you only need to update one contact in case you change a disposable email address to a new one. Aside form that, you can easily determine which among your contacts are sending you spam. You can them program your disposable email address in such a way that the emails it forwards to your official email address directly go to the spam or trash folder.

Finding Email Addresses

If you have a small business or online shop, then you might want to try email marketing. Email marketing is a powerful and cost-effective tool that allows you to promote your business to clients and potential customers. You should keep in mind, though, that when doing email marketing, it’s important for you to have a list of email addresses that you’re going to send messages to. So what will you do if you haven’t taken note of clients’ email addresses or lost some of them? Below are some tips to help you find the email addresses you’re looking for.

* Search through your email account. Perhaps you just forgot to save some email addresses. If you rarely erase emails and you’ve emailed your clients before, chances are the email addresses are just in your email account.

* Look for email addresses in your stash of business cards. Business cards usually contain email addresses of individuals. You might even find some email addresses that you weren’t looking for but would be happy to store in your client list.

* Find email addresses online. You can look for the email addresses of various individuals by looking for them on the Internet. You can do this by searching using dedicated search engines. It’s also advisable for you to search for their email addresses in social networking sites in case you know that they’re a member of some of these sites.

* Ask somebody for their email address. You can try getting the email addresses of people through a couple of common friends. This is the easiest way for you to get their email addresses.