Protect Your email address from web crawler robots.
This is first and most important step - never ever give away Your email address in text form. Even if You give it away in hyperlink form, for example: mail_Bartłomiej - it's still machine readeable so web crawlers will easily scrap it and put it into their spam data base.
Hello email harvesters, You can't scrap me!
How to inform web what's Your email address? Put it onto image and paste it! This form is user readable but most crawlers are not yet fit to read it. Use this method regardless of users complaining that it isn't copy-pastable. If someone is willing to contact You he'll do sacrifice this small amount of time and eventually rewrite it with a pen, write it into notepad or simply remember and add You to him contacts.
Don't subscribe to untrasted newsletters.
Newsletter lists are quite nice way to stay in touch with the world. However You have to know that some of website owners are often back against the wall and in such case the may sell those lists with Your email addresses. This will result with You receiving tons of messages from unknown sources. The reason behind it is that You've been sold out on the black market. It's clever to be careful who You trust. Company with a history on the marked is far more trustworthy that a newcomer. If You desperately want to subscribe for a newsletter on the fresh site You may want to check out people behind the project. Who knows? Maybe they're already known in community and are truly worth Your trust?
Protect Your personal computer.
Unless You running Unix based system (which often means that You're a techy geek) You have to install anti-virus program. Even experienced users are using at least some freeware protection. However, if You're using Your machine for work than a good way to go is to buy an legal version of popular anti-virus application. Add to it some anti-adware protection and read some forum posts about safety. There are many smart and freeware applications that may help You to get a rid of unwanted software that have nested in You're machine. When Your PC is clean from all of the flaws and bugs You may be sure that You're protecting Your privacy on highest level avaible.
Overwiev.
That's how my GMail looks alike. It is full of messages but only few from this are spam. Even if I dig into my spam directory I only finds out that at most those messages are coming from the sources I have agreed to get. Half of those messages are misinterpretations by Google Mail engine. The reason behind those false signals of spam comes from the users that are first subscribing to any kinds of newsletters and than clicking spam reports instead of unsubscribe. Google algorithms follows their steps and filter this senders as potentially spamers, but the guilt is on the community site.
I hope that does help You!
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