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  • The Internet Spam Primer: Help with Spam, Phishing, and Other E-Mail Pests

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The Internet Spam Primer: Help with Spam, Phishing, and Other E-Mail Pests Kindle Edition

by Randy Cassingham (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 out of 5 stars (25)
It just won't stop! No matter what you do, it seems impossible to stem the flow of junk mail into your inbox. Whether you call it spam or unsolicited e-mail, if it's not a problem for you, it probably will be before long.

Randy Cassingham is the author and publisher of This is True -- www.ThisIsTrue.com -- one of the first e-mail newsletters, starting in 1994. Randy quickly realized that spam would not just continue, but grow -- and it's now 90 percent of all e-mail traffic online.

The Spam Primer started as a way to help his readers understand the spam problem, and learn how to cut it back dramatically, while still getting the e-mail they WANT to get (like his newsletter!)

The contents of this brief book covers the things you need to know:

+ Introduction — and Why Randy Cares About Your E-mail Problem
+ Spam: What Is It
+ Who Is Sending Spam
+ How Spammers Get Your Address
+ Keeping Your Address Off Spammers' Lists
+ Spammers Won't "Unsubscribe" You (but how tell When You Can)
+ The Federal CAN-SPAM Law Won't Help You
+ How to Get Legitimate Mail Delivered
+ Filtering Spam
+ How to Help Ensure Your Own Legitimate Mail Gets Delivered
+ Phishing and E-Mail Scams
+ When You Become Part of the Problem
+ Send This to Everyone You Know? No!
+ How I Beat Spam — Without Changing My E-mail Address
+ Reader Questions
+ Conclusion
+ About the Author

That looks like a lot, but you really can get it all read in just 30 minutes. And Randy's breezy style makes it fully understandable so you can get a handle on YOUR inbox.

Randy and his work have been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Internet World, Playboy, Salon, USA Today, American Journalism Review, Wired, the Washington Post, and many, many more.

The Spam Printer ebook is based on the text at SpamPrimer.com, plus the extensive how-to chapter "How I Beat Spam -- Without Changing My E-mail address" and other material. This gives you the complete picture in one place for the first time.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B007SO8FS0
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Freelance Communications
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 8 April 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Randy Cassingham is an American syndicated columnist, humorist, publisher, and speaker, and formerly was on the engineering staff of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Cassingham is the author of the weekly news feature "This is True" (founded online in 1994), one of the first commercial email newsletters on the Internet. (In January 1997, an expanded paid version became one of the first paid email newsletters on the Internet.) It is still published weekly, and each year's stories are collected into book form.

Randy bills This is True as "Thought-Provoking Entertainment". "Who wants to read it if it's not entertaining?" he asks. "But once you do, you can't help but to start thinking about some of the issues raised."

Randy is also the Founder of the "True Stella Awards" (founded 2002), a web site dedicated to exploring frivolous legal cases. The site was expanded into a 2005 book of the same name, published by Dutton, an imprint of the Penguin Group.

Randy has been the keynote speaker at several of The Skeptics Society's annual conferences, and has spoken at several Mensa Gatherings -- he and his wife, Kit, are life members of Mensa. They live in rural Western Colorado, where they are volunteer Medics for their area.

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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  • JDavidJ
    5 out of 5 stars
    A very useful book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2016
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    It explains in great detail what spam is, but in terms that most people will understand. It them goes on to offer solutions, some of which I have successfully adopted. Anyone who suffers from spam, i.e. everyone, would benefit from reading this

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    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 December 2020
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    Read listed as not read this is not ideal. I don't want to have tido this for every book clear

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  • Card Dead
    5 out of 5 stars
    Sage advice for the masses
    Reviewed in the United States on 10 April 2012
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    Part of me wants to say that this quick read is common sense, but then I consider the old saying "common sense is neither". Randy takes on the topic of something very serious in our everyday internet world and makes it an entertaining, thought-provoking, educational read. I first read earlier versions of this on his web site years ago and it's great to know that current tools can make reducing spam considerably easier. Also, it is our collective responsibility to discourage spammers by simply not participating. You can read this info quickly and take the steps to make your inbox a better place to live. Be committed to a goal of getting and giving less spam by practicing the easy tactics Randay describes, as well as having some personal discipline. You and your friends will be glad you did.

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  • Dylan
    5 out of 5 stars
    An excellent discussion of Internet Spam
    Reviewed in the United States on 10 April 2012
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    I have always enjoyed all of Randy's writing. He is thoughtful, informative, and concise, and I particularly appreciate his turning his talents to the topic of Spam. Not only does he explain why it is such a scourge, and why it is so important for us all to take part in stamping it out, he also provides specific methods for avoiding spam and detecting other threats. This is well worth reading and, occasionally, rereading, and the suggestions for preventing a lot of the spam I was getting more than pay for the small cost of the ebook.

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  • Robert Levitt
    3 out of 5 stars
    So-so
    Reviewed in the United States on 22 July 2013
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    Much of what I found in it wasn't completely applicable to my situation, but it did give me food for thought.

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  • Darlene
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    Reviewed in the United States on 15 October 2014
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    Worth studying and applying. I have seen some of the material before but worth the review.

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  • James L. Dent
    5 out of 5 stars
    The most concise and easy to read book on getting rid of spam
    Reviewed in the United States on 11 April 2012
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    This is one of the best values in Amazon's entire store! This concise guide gives you a quick, but thorough, guide to ridding your email inbox of all the spam and other nasty emails you get every day. All this information in one place, with practical strategies, guides you with plain and easy to understand language. Short enough to read during lunch and start implementing Randy's suggestions this afternoon!

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