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Basic rules to avoid and minimize spam
Techniques to stop spam fall into two categories: Filtering out spam and minimising
the exposure of your email addresses
Do NOT, ever, click on the REMOVE link SPAMmers add to thier emails to you. This also will verify your email address as VALID and your address
will be added to the list and sold to more SPAMmers
Some spam emailers use computer programs to guess at email addresses. So use unusual
email addresses containing numbers and letters e.g. alex245moose75@yourdomain.com
If you want to enable users of your website to contact you online, provide a form. But make sure the
"send to" email address is not contained in the page HTML, but in the form processing script
Spammers use special programs that extract email addresses from Web sites and Usenet postings.
To avoid ending on a spammer's mailing list when you post to a Web forum or a newsgroup, you can
obscure your email address by inserting something obvious into it.
If my email address is alex@yahoo.com, I modify it to read alex@yah[delete_this]oo.com
Never reply to spam messages, even when they entice you to reply to "remove" you
from their mailing lists. Often the instructions are either bogus, or a way to collect more addresses.
Replying confirms to the spammers that your e-mail address is active, and you may receive
even more junk mail
Remove your email address from your website's pages and provide a web based mail form instead.
This way spammers can't send robots to your page to harvest email addresses and put them on
their mailing lists. Contact-Us-Online.com can provide you with such a script free of charge
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