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WWW is beautiful, its nice, its useful….

But it is ugly also.

There are many facets of its ugly face and SPAM is one of them. The most common type of spam is e mail spam. It is true that spammers target emails easily, but at the same time it is also true that most of the spam spreads only due to our lack of knowledge and negligence.

Here is a tip, which can effectively reduce your exposure to email spamming. But before that, let us know that the first step towards spamming is to collect valid, and genuine email addresses, which are currently under use by the real people.

How to block e mail spam

Many email messages contain pictures embedded within the message itself. Out of them, some are transmitted along with the messages. But sometimes only the link to the picture is actually sent via the email and when the email is opened, at that time the link connects to the server where the picture is actually hosted and then sends the picture.

So what is the difference ?

There is a big difference in two cases.

In the second case, when you open the email, the sending server comes to know that the email has been opened by somebody, while in the first case server does’t get such intimation.Now the interesting part… In the second case, the server comes to know that the since the email has been opened, this means that the recipient email address is a genuine one and hence can be spammed.

So, what is the remedy.

It is simple. Just explore through your email client program and look for the option, which blocks automatic downloading of pictures and images. Activate it, and now before showing any image, the email client software will ask your permission. If you are satisfied that the message is not a spam, grant the permission, otherwise not so as to block the unwanted e mail spam.

Simple.