Can you spell cacophony?

How to do it?

Only one option:

Never. Give. Your. Email. Address. To. Anyone.

That’s it, problem solved, no more spam.

What? You want to get email?

Then why are you
reading this?

Oh, you want email from friends?

Well, that’s different!

OK, you can’t not give your email address, but you can be careful who you give it to. My
advice is this:

1. Never put your true email address on posts to mailing lists or forums.
2. Never give a
   
   company
   
   your true email address.
3. Never put your true email address anywhere on the web where it can be freely read.
4. Be very careful which people you give the address to. Are they likely to send
   pointless messages to everyone in their address book, which then get forwarded on and on
   and on, with the entire history of to: and cc: there for the whole world to see. Unfortunately,
   you may be related to such people and have no choice, but just think about it.

Notice I said TRUE email address. The alternative is to use an address that is not true. What do I mean?

• Wherever possible you could just make up an address, but
  we are assuming that you want to receive at least some mail from this person or group (even
  if it is just a confirmation to your registration). This option is obviously limited.
• For web pages etc, you could always do something like this: myusername at bigpond dot com.
  Spammers use “robots” that scan web pages for text in the format of abc@def.net. This avoids
  that, but the spammers and their bots are getting smarter, so this way wouldn’t work for
  long
• Use an unimportant webmail address (hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc) for spam-attracting stuff. This
  could lead to problems later, but you could always delete it and start again.
• I consider the best option to be
  
  Disposable Email Addresses
  
  . This is basically what this document is about. I personally use a combination of two systems,
  which I will outline here.

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