What Are Email Lists?

Whenever you put your name and email address down somewhere, your details are going onto a list of some kind, and nowadays it will usually be into email lists. Thats just the way of the world, and theres little you can do to avoid it, but there are some ways to lessen the impact to your personal life by taking some small steps when you do give out your details for whatever reason.

Email lists are basically marketing and sales tools used by many companies to help in their efforts to gain customers or clients for whatever product or service their pushing. These lists can sometimes be used by good companies to make you aware of what they have, specials they have for list customers only and things of that nature, but where theres good theres always bad, too. When your details get onto an email list anywhere, it only takes one less than honest person to sell it to the wrong people, and this is how everyone ends up getting those emails that you never signed up for, like the male enhancers, the you have won the lottery emails and such. A simple yet effective way to minimize this is to have 2 email addresses, one you use for real email, and another specifically for when you have to give an email address out. This simple little thing, which is free to do as email addresses are free just about everywhere now will totally remove you from the possibility of getting your real email address onto those email lists.

If you dont want to bother with the above method, then only give your email address to those companies or people that you absolutely trust, such as your doctors office or pharmacy. Remember though that no matter who you give it to, you WILL be going onto someones email lists. This may never affect you as not everyone employs email lists for anything other than the reason they stated when asking for it, but thats not to say that someone working there wont steal and sell that list for a fast buck or 300.

Only accept and open emails from people you know, as sometimes bad marketers send out millions of emails with randomized addresses in the hope that someone really has that email address and they wont know if its good or bad until the email gets opened, so be aware that all emails coming to you may simply want you to do this to include you onto their email lists for selling to others.