Avoid spam

Here are simple tips to limit this, from my experience::

• Of course, you should avoid giving your e-mail address to organizations you don't trust. Though some organizations may be serious ones, they may still sell it to others. At least, it may be hard to stop them from sending you e-mail. For such cases, you should create a mailbox on a free e-mail site (lots have a POP3 and IMAP interface like the one of your Internet Provider). When this mailbox gets too much junk mail, delete it and create a new one.
• Similarly, don't post on newsgroups with your main address. Use rather a dedicated address. Newsgroups are heavily scanned by spammers and has historically been the first resources spammers used. Also check that your signature doesn't include your permanent address! To make sure people can still contact you, you can provide a link to your home page where you indicate your permanent address.
• A new problem is spammers are now scanning web sites too! Fortunately, there's a way to confuse them. You can replace your e-mail address by a small piece of Javascript code that generates it. This is totally transparent for people reading your pages, but totally opaque for spam robots, which are very unlikely to understand Javascript! Such code is very easy to create with EScrambler. I use it on my web site.
• Also be cautions with mailing lists that are archived on the web. Malicious web crawlers may find your address there.

See also

• How to avoid spam
• Fight spam on the Internet
• Five easy ways to avoid spam (From ZDNet)