Unsolicited emailing bothers thousands of users worldwide, though doping the software industry which struggles hard to fight spam. Any of you have likely experienced receiving naughty emails like "CHEAP VIAGRA!", "SUPERB MORTGAGE LOANS RATES!", "BUY THIS SOFTWARE CHEAP!" and so on. Sometimes it becomes so obsolete that one falls into thinking that it is impossible to fight spam.

Sure as it is, the industry of spam has grown to the enormous extent recently. Spammers earn billions by littering other people's mailboxes. And just imagine how much those software producers are to earn, selling different spamblocker and spamfilter applications. That's no wonder then that we are still unable to fight spam effectively. There are obviously some hidden strings attached to that.

Businesses and Internet service providers spend huge amounts of money to prevent being littered by that unsolicited emailing, or spam. Whatever, the process never stops. 30% of all emails are estimated to be of spam origin.

Now the Internet has turned to a battlefield where those naughty unsolicited email marketers fight the increasing number of anti spam organization, which in their turn suck money from the final customer.

Internet service providers have implemented multilevel filters to block spam. Sometimes they even hire special staff to manually sort the incoming emails, which is after all very time consuming and financially ineffective. Very often the incoming traffic from the certain servers, being marked as "spam hosters" is blocked.

Spammers, however, are quite smart and are constantly finding ways to overcome these barriers. Some of them use different mailing servers, using holes in security and thus putting innocent people into the ban. Others somehow remove the information about the sender or change it to somewhat different. Another group of spammers constantly migrates from one account to another to avoid being tagged as a "spammer".

Spammers usually get your email address with the help of the robotized crawlers, which extract email addresses from various message boards, guest books etc. Thus, you should be pretty smart to keep your email address from joining another spamming list. You may substitute '@' for something different, or you may present your email address as a picture. There are different ways to prevent your mailbox from being spammed. You just need to activate your creativity.

Besides fighting with spammers on the online resources from which they can extract your address, you may also set up a huge barrier on your side - meaning your PC. Nowadays the market is full with various spam blocking and spam filtering software, both free and commercial. It's worth paying some time to search the market for the best offer to fit your needs.

Fighting spam nowadays is a very serious issue. One should try and keep away from spam wherever possible. Ignore spam. Never answer to those annoying emails - that will end up in spreading your address through multiple spamming lists as one being proved to be active.