Block Spam with An Easy Behavioral Change

By Catherine Franz

E-mails now have a connection back to their servers. I will
leave the technical aspects out of this article. Instead, I
will walk you through how information from your computer is
getting back to them.

You have probably experienced this already, an e-mail lands
in your box with many symbols in the subject line created
with the Shift Key plus a Number Key. This is the most
common one. For example, it may look like this:
&*)(*&^%$! Except the length of the symbols are longer.

When you click on it to delete it, any further action,
including the deletion of the e-mail seems to go into la-la
land. In other words, you can do anything else. This may
last up to a minute or two depending on your computer speed.
You have just been pinged and information is going back to
their server saying there is a live connection.

In addition, because the symbols change all the time, it