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 There is nothing more infuriating than reading the plethora of emails each day advertising improvements to ones anatomy, get rich quick schemes and lately trying to solicit bank account information form unsuspecting workers. Our businesses spend thousands of Rands in man hours just dealing with this daily scourge. Once your email address appears on one of these spammers lists you can spend a lifetime dodging dubious emails at great expense in time, bandwidth and hassles. However email is part of our lives now and we need it to fulfill daily functions and needs.Ideally you want to avoid getting onto the lists but the reality is that if you have had an email address for a couple of years then you’re probably caught in the trap already. My Broadband reports that The Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) first launched its ISPA Hall of Shame in September 2008, an initiative aimed at exposing the country’s biggest spammers. The “Hall of Shame” is a blacklist of known South African spammers and to date the project has shown good results. Numerous local spammers have seen the error of their ways, and have signed an undertaking to observe best practice in the sending of commercial email. Some other spammers are however less remorseful, and continue to spam local internet users and even resell email databases. ISPA has released its latest spammer’s Hall of Shame, naming and shaming South Africa’s biggest spammers and email address resellers. As an individual you should take a number of precautions:
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