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Don'ts

• Logging in to a Chat Room and using real email address. Those chat rooms are constantly monitored by all sorts of creeps whose job it is, to get your email address.

• Using your real email address in NetMeeting. If you use NetMeeting, look at what other people put for their email address. You should put anything but your real email address.

• Posting to newsgroups or message boards with your real email address. This is the quickest way to get junk mail. Some machine, somewhere, just goes to each newsgroup and parses out anything that looks like a valid email address.

• Putting your email address on your personal web page. I'm sorry folks, but there are "spiders" that roam the web 24 hours a day trying to parse email addresses out of web sites.

• Your friends that you forward jokes to forward them to other friends and acquaintances, complete with the copy list.  I get these things every day.  There's a joke down below somewhere, but I have to wade through hundreds of email addresses of people to whom it has been forwarded, most of them at AOL.  I don't know who all the people are, but I suspect that there's a good likelihood that one of them might sell or otherwise make available to junk-mailers all of those addresses on the list. Don't forward, just copy and paste the text and if you send it to more than one person use the "BCC" (Blind Carbon Copy). To use BC in Outlook Express, go to "New Mail", "View", check "All Headers". In Netscape Messenger, click on the "To:" to expand the menu, and click on BCC.
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