How can I get less spam on my email?

I used to get no spam whatsoever but over the past few months, I am getting more and more spam!





My Yahoo mail does have a spam filter and it works well but I cant understand that 3 months ago, I got one spam email a month, now I am getting one spam e-mail every few hours!

How can I get less spam on my email?
In addition to John R:





Never visit sites that hosts keymakers, cracks, serials, and similar whereby they can scan your cookies and from it they can deduce your email address then spam you. Other sites to avoid would be the obvious hardcore porn sites, and other similar sites where will ask you for your email address in return for downloading something. If ever you do so your inbox could be flooded with spam emails; and thus I would recommend an add-on TemporaryInbox http://www.temporaryinbox.com/ which works great on Firefox, IE and Opera.





Another thing, even on legitimate commercial websites you visit; once you sign-up for their services, always UNCHECK the box suggesting that the website could provide your email address to other third party. More often than not, these check-box are in small letters, which is sometimes hard to read or notice, and the box is defaulted as checked [meaning you are allowing the website to give out your email address to a third party!]





I usually use filters in YahooMail, whereby most spam emails are directed to Trash Bin, thus limiting my effort in deleting them or the instance of accidentally opening them in Inbox. Aside from reporting spam emails as SPAM when they do appear in the my INBOX, I never open them in the first place. Another thing, if I personally signified on a website subscription, I add that to my online address book to ferret-out the legitimate from the illegitimate ones.





As spammers say "spam is here to stay" as we can see from the frequency they are coming in our inbox.
Reply:In the 1st instance keep reporting the spam emails by clicking the spam button when you receive them. They will not stop as they are sent out using spam software and by using long lists. The spammers using inet trawling software which trawls the inet lookin for the @ symbol. They then hook everything either side of this and store it.





When you place an email on a webpage, never use the @ symbol. Use (at) and tell people to exchange the (at) for @.





If all else fails there is software which will block ip addresses and gatewats etc, or simply change your emil address.





Never ever reply to spam email.Its like saying here I am and I am waiting for your spam.

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