Rule 2: Be Hard To Find Do not give your email address out except to people who need it. When you sign up for something and they have all those nice offers about “free newsletters” or “tell us your interests” you are INVITING junk mail unless you uncheck all those boxes. There is generally no good reason to forward anything to your whole address book unless you just had a baby. Genuine online petitions will have a web page which records responses in a database. Don’t forward most virus warnings – (see later for how to pick a virus hoax). Junk email will be greatly reduced if we simply do not forward emails to large numbers of people. Please do not forward chain letters, urban myths, sensational “news”, appeals for a young boy dying of cancer, “internet petitions” – there is NO SUCH THING as an email petition. Rule 1: Don’t Generate It In The First Place! See for comprehensive information on spam So when all you seem to get in your email inbox get is “junk mail” – that’s Spam. Spam is named after a rather inedible form of luncheon meat that was immortalized in a Monty Python skit where all the people were allowed to eat was “Spam, Spam, Spam”. “SPAM” – unwanted commercial email, chain letters etc This brief guide will give you a quick guided tour and the web addresses in it will point you to where you can find more information. Unwanted email, pornography, cult websites, commercial scams and malicious viruses are just some of the challenges to surviving the drive online. Introduction: Computers and the Internet have become an everyday part of professional life but a challenge to the Christian life.
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