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HOW DID THESE FOLKS GET MY EMAIL ADDRESS OR HOW JUNK MAIL BEGINS
Issue 19, May 2001
By Brian Backhaus
Director of Sales & Marketing

IF you do not remember if you asked to be on their email list, do not reply to the address for removal from their list. For the most part, it will only add you to a list of live addresses that this person or company will sell to others, and in turn create more junk mail to your account.

How did they get your email address? There are many ways that these junk mailers harvest email addresses, sometimes they copy addresses from forwarded emails. You know, the jokes, or stories that people forward to friends, and so on. In addition, if you have given an email address for another list that you may want, they may have copied it if they are on the same list. Also, if you have your email on a list at church, work, or other activity, someone may have copied it from there.

How do I stop it? The most extreme thing you can do is never give out your email address … but if you do this, you never get mail from those that you want to get it from. So junk email is inevitable. You can forward the junk email to the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that hosts the email address. For example if a customer from ARQ was sending out junk email, those you may want to forward the junk email to would include support@arq.net, webmaster@arq.net, or postmaster@arq.net (sometimes they send to spam@arq.net as well) and report the user. Unless this ISP supports junk email, these emails can be stopped at the source. In addition, you can let the folks at ARQ know and we can follow up from our end.