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Have you been getting too many spam emails?

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This is worst if you are using public and free email services like hotmail, gmail, yahoo and so on.
Even if they all have spam protection, you still keep getting spams.
Companies do get spam emails as well especially if you publish your email address on your website. This is definitely unavoidable.
The way to get around it is to publish it as e.g. sales [at] yourcompany dot com, or something similar. This is because spammers use programs to sniff valid email addresses in the Internet.
As the format above is not a valid email address, spammers will not be able to send spams to you. The format is in human readable form.
Of course there is plus and minus to the way you publish your email address on the web. It is normally acceptable for convenience as readers can just click and send an email to you if they have email client installed in their computers.
What is private email?
It is just a domain name your purchase and hosted in a remote server for emailing and even website purposes.
Let us say you do not want to have a website, but would like to have your own email address free of spam, you could register a domain name for yourself and get it hosted. A domain name can be anything including your name or surname if it is not taken e.g. if your name is Jessica Lollies you could have an email address like jessica@lollies.com for yourself and all your family.
You just need to buy lollies.com and get it hosted. You can then set up email addressed for your brothers and sisters, parents etc. So your brother will have his own email address john@lollies.com, your mother’s mary@lollies.com etc.
You can set up unlimited email addresses with the domain name you own. And of course the size of your mail box will be so much larger than the free email than you have been using.
You can set up your email with any email clients like outlook, firebird, evolution and so on very easily in your computer. Alternatively, you can just use the webmail service to check, write emails from the browser any where in the World just like you do with your gmail account.
In this way, your have personnal and cool email address free from spams.
You can share it with your whole family, relatives and even friends.
It only costs you about $100 a year, or 27 cents a day.