| Thursday, October 20, 2005 |
| Tips on avoiding spam. |
Basic rules to avoid and minimize spam (from an external source)
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.
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.
If the spam has gotten to be too much, change email addresses! Simply let all of your friends and contacts know, and then make the switch (send them notice from your old email address and your new one) We recommend Gmail, a free mail program from Google with great features, and a pretty decent built in spam filter. You can get gmail by using your mobile phone number (very odd, I know....) or you can send us an email and we'll send you a free gmail invite. Mail us at: help chaseandsam.com (replace the with the @ symbol, of course.
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
More to come later. |
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