• Find out how to make your inbox off-limits to spammers!
• Reclaim your inbox with filters and helpful hints!
• Stop choking on spam —here''s how to report it and how to can it

Spam giving you indigestion? Help is on the way! Although there''s no magic pill yet, this little book is packed with practical tips for keeping much of that trash from ever reaching your inbox. Find out how spam filters work, which ones work best, and how you can become a global antispam warrior.

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

Discover how to:

• Give spammers the slip
• Complain to the right people
• Follow the header trail
• Block messages by sender
• Activate controls on different e-mail programs
• Install and use POPFile

If you have e-mail, you have spam—that annoying electronic junk mail that jams your inbox, sometimes makes you blush, and takes a lot of the fun out of your online experience. Spam wastes thousands of hours and costs you, the recipient of the stuff you don’t want, thousands of dollars in increased costs that your Internet service provider eventually passes along to you. In fact, a European survey in 2001 revealed that spam costs about $9.4 billion each year!

Spammers spam because they’re not paying for it, you are. The good news is, you can fight back, and Fighting Spam For Dummies tells you how. Find ou

li>Where spam comes fro
• How to set up spam filter
• How folders help filter out spa
• What additional programs can hel
• Where—and how—to report spa
• How best to lobby for spam contro

You’ll get the plai n-English explanation for activating any additional protection offered by your ISP, and discover how to make the best use of any spam filter that came with your e-mail program. Fighting Spam For Dummies will arm you with information abou

li>Making your address harder for spammers to gra
• Why simply hitting “delete” isn’t enoug
• Tracking down the source of the spa
• What you can learn from e-mail header
• How spam filters work—and why they aren’t foolproo
• Setting up the maximum level of filtration for your e-mail program and IS
• What information your ISP needs when you report spa
• How—and how not—to complai
• Adding protection with POPFil
• Ways to protect your clients if you’re a network administrato

The ultimate solution to spam has yet to be found, but these Internet-savvy authors give you the tools to help level the playing field. They also offer some solid suggestions for anti-spam laws and how you can join the war on spam