Please remove my E-Mail addfrom any and all hub mail now or include a remove on all ads,

Here are some thoughts about removing emails and doing some spam control.

We all know what spam is and how it's out of hand. Lots of services are designed to control the flood and some sortof actually work. The one problem they all suffer from is that they're robots. The apply rules to the emails they see and judge by those rules. Some systems can be trained, others can't, but those others frequently upgrade their systems. The problem is that they generate a lot of false positives. Email that you might want is trashed.

The best way, really, is to do your own controls.

As far as HubPages goes, it's easy. Log into your account, click the my profile link on the top of the page and UNcheck these three boxes:

• Allow HubPages to contact you?
• Allow other users to contact you?
• Receive email from your favorite authors?

Many sites that require accounts will have a similar opt-out area.

Side note: Just so we're all on the same page. If you opt-in to a newsletter and the letter owner sends you email it isn't spam. If you join a site like HubPages it's your responsibility to uncheck the appropriate boxes.

Ok, on to the spam control.

Legitimate emails and newsletters (that aren't just from your pals) will have address info and an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. Services such as Aweber.com include this in all outgoing emails automatically.

Click the link and you're off the list. Just remember that you DID sign up for it, even if it didn't turn out to be what you wanted. By the way, these sorts of links work and they don't add your name to other lists.

Many of them also include a link allowing yoiu to change the email yoiu're subscribed with. Make a new email account and use that link, if it's there, to move those emails to the new account,

Go to Yahoo.com (or Hotmail or any other free email provider) and sign up for an account. If you have your own webhosting you can do it through your own control panel.

Use this email account whenever you need to enter an email to join a site. Make sure you look at it occasionally because you will need to see the emails asking you to confirm yor address.

Keep in mind that Hotmail and the other free services are well known for aggressive spam filters. They generate a lot of false positives. Some will put all the junk in a folder for you to verify, others just kill it.

Never use your personal email to sign up for anything. Always use the 2nd or third email for signups, postings, and comments.

Use an email name that isn't going to appear in a dictionary. If you have domain name and if you make an email address like sales@domain.com you will get spam. Lots of it. Why? Spammers use software to attach all sorts of common words to domains in the hopes that some of them are real.

You know those spams you get offering 29 zillion emails on CD for $29.95? That's how they come up with a lot of them.

So put a couple of extra number or letters in your email address. Instead of John@yahoo.com you might put in john2782x@yahoo.com. No dictionary program is going to hit that one.

Never ever post your email address on your website (or your HubPage.) Robot email collectors will find it and add it to that CD with the 29 zillion emails. If you need to have your email on your site or page then use a graphic of your email address, or use a script that makes a contact form.

Segregate your inbox. Check the documentation on whatever email program you use. Set up a new folder for every email account you have. That way it doesn't all land in one box.

I don't care for the online anti-spam services and the ones on my computer aren't all that great. So I use all of the above to try and keep the spam manageable.

I hope some of them work for you. Good luck!