Special Notice for AOL Users

If you use AOL or America Online, then you have at least five screen names, which translate to five e-mail boxes. When you first signed up with AOL you made your main e-mail account. Take advantage of the other screen names and make one of them your junk mail box. Go to keyword SCREEN NAMES or PARENTAL CONTROLS for more information.

PLEASE NOTE:  AOL makes your information available to others. I repeat, AOL SELLS E-MAIL ADDRESSES.

Section 1

Protection from
Junk Mail

Sign Up for a
Free E-mail Box
A "Junk mail" Box

Special Notice
for AOL Users

Give Your
E-mail Address to Others Sparingly

See a word you don't understand? Click here.

In an article by Doug Brown , with  Inter@ctive Week regarding AOL, he states, "Users can opt out of lists used for sending spam e-mail, having logs of their online travels sold to marketers or having information about what they buy online disseminated." Updated December 1, 1999 8:08 AM

You have the option to refuse junk mail, but you must renew your privacy options request every year. Go to PRIVACY as your keyword to learn more about protecting yourself AOL's "choice marketing preferences."

Go to www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2400502,00.ht ml?chkpt=zdnntop or click here for more information on AOL privacy practices (or lack of privacy practices.)

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Carefully Screen Internet Sites that Ask For Your E-mail Use Your
"Junk mail" Box

Setting Up Your "Junk mail" Account in Outlook Express

Sample Letter to Send Friends
Who Send Junk mail

Section 2

Protecting Others
from Junk Mail

Section 3

Protection
from Viruses