1. The most effective way to prevent spam from entering your inbox is to use SpamGuard Plus. Help increase SpamGuard Plus's effectiveness by sending examples of spam to Yahoo! to review: When you receive a message that you believe is spam, click the "Spam" button at the top of the message screen in Webmail. Yahoo! will use the messages you send to constantly improve the SpamGuard Plus technology. Note: This feature is available only to those users with Webmail and POP access to their mailboxes.

2. AT&T Yahoo! Business Email offers you the ability to create filters for your mailbox. You can create filters to deliver emails to a special folder or to the Trash based on specific words or phrases they contain, a sender's domain, or any other characteristics you specify.

3. AT&T Yahoo! Business Email allows you to prevent future email from a specific email address from being delivered to you at all. Note that many spammers frequently change their email addresses to avoid this technique.

Outside of the specific tools that AT&T Yahoo! Business Email offers:

• Never respond to unsolicited email (spam). To the individuals who send spam, one response or "hit" among thousands of mailings is enough to justify the practice.

• Never respond to the spam email's instructions to reply with the word "remove" in the subject line unless you trust the company sending the email. This is a ploy to get you to react to the email and will alert the sender that your email address is open and available to receive mail, which greatly increases its value. If you reply, your address may be placed on more lists, resulting in more spam.

• Never click on a URL or web site address listed within a spam email. This could alert the site to the validity of your email address, potentially resulting in more spam.

• Never sign up with sites that promise to remove your name from spam lists. Although some of these sites may be legitimate, more often than not, they are address collectors. The legitimate sites are ignored (or exploited) by the spammers, and the address collection sites are owned by spammers. In both cases, your address is recorded and valued more highly because you have just identified that your address is active.