Time to Stop Email Spamming in the 21st Century

How to stop email spammers may not be internet savvy and grammatically correct. The question should be how to stop seeing the same electronic generated emails on your computer every morning when you did not request the information.

Let us begin with a simple explanation about email and exactly what constitutes email before we try to get rid of any of it. Email is electronically generated mail that is sent from one recipient to another by way of the computer via the internet. A few people are still confusing email with a website or a web address. A web address starts with www meaning that the address can only be visited if a http is used which is the beginning four characters of the web address. The URL is the computer lingo for a web address that starts with http. These are simple terms for the everyday computer and internet user to understand. Of course there is technical meaning of the http characters and the URL characters. For now we are going to keep every thing as simple as possible.

There is another web address that can be visited with the use of html which is computer language that includes the http and is used when computers "talk" to each other. The html can be several lines of characters whereas the URL is usually one line of characters or two if the address is long.

Now for an explanation of an email. The e preceding the mail means exactly what you probably have figured out. The e represents the word electronic so email is electronic mail. The internet is the cyperspace that the email is sent from one person to another via electronic means. The email address has no spaces and is separated by dots or periods except toward the end of the address where an @ sign is used and a dot com ends the email address. Dot com indicates that the address is from a business or a commercial entity. Dot org indicates that the email is from a non profit organization. Dot net is used interchangeable with dot com and dot edu indicates that the email is from a school or college.

About the question concerning receiving these @ addresses and Dot com's unannounced. When you receive these emails in your inbox more likely than not the @ sign is not in the address. Businesses have become quite knowledgeable about personalizing who the emails are from and will now put a name to make you think that you are reading an email from a person.

You are the recipient of electronically generated email that is sent to thousands of email addresses with the goal of increasing their database to increase sales or to sell your email address to other companies. Just as some writing sites have RSS which means Really Simple Syndication so do advertising companies. If your name is on a RSS Feeds, that means that whenever information is put into the computer server for that feed, then your email address will be the end user.

Remember the Lucy show where she worked at the candy factory and had a difficult time with the conveyor machines. The machine was slowly producing the candy along the conveyor and then the mechanism sped up. The comedy was in Lucy trying to keep up with the machine by distributing the candy into the packages. After a while Lucy could not keep up and was stuffing the candy where ever she could on her person to keep the conveyor clear of candy.

The RSS feeds works the same way with supplying information to your email address. If you initiate the action, you can actually regulate when to receive the information. On spam email however, the newsletters or advertisings is more often then not generated daily. Daily receipt of unwanted email can be a nusiance.

These email companies are smart and have studied your profile based on what you have ordered online or searched for over the internet. Google and Yahoo keeps a record of all of your searches for information on the internet. In the news recently, Yahoo has decided to shorten the length of time that they store your email address.

It is uncertain whether Google or Yahoo is selling your email address but there are companies that make their revenue by compiling and selling email lists to big businesses. That is why on a few secure websites, the companies promise not to sell your email address. Google and Yahoo search engines has grown tremendously over the years and these companies may be selling email databases but that is not confirmed.

These unwanted emails are normally interesting to you because the companies have done the research personally on you and know your tastes and the sites you log on daily. They have your profile and know what type of shopper you are and what will make you purchase an item or even read their newsletters.

If you see the same emails generated to you each day, go to the bottom of the email and click on unsubscribe. Again the marketers are smart and will seem to want to carry on a conversation with you even though you are unsubscribing. The prose will read that they are sorry to see you leave or offer other alternative newsletters in which to select. Go through with the unsubscribe option.

Arbitrarily deleting these unwanted emails everyday is not going to stop them from visiting you daily. You have to get to the root of the problem and that is to select the unsubscribe option at the bottom of the email. The unsubscribe is usually underlined and follows such gadgets as contact us or about us.

Internet users must realize that electronic mail is the same as snail mail that comes to your home everyday. When you receive junk mail, you should immediately throw it out or shred it because it will become clutter if you choose to keep it. Email that is unwanted or spam is in the same junk category and should be unsubscribed to right away.

Spam is not only in the form of email but can be received as pop up advertising. Now the pop ups are covering almost all of the page you are viewing and collects your page information to confuse you into reading it. You can just x those popup out and set your computer to not accept any popups. Computers have that option. If you do not know how to program your computer to block the popups, you may want to call the Geek Squad that is a part of the Best Buy Electronic Store Chain. The majority of the time, they will walk you through what to do without any charge even if you did not purchase the computer from them. Smart people can be very nice people also unlike those annoying email spammers.