How to avoid being a target Spam

2010 January 26
by admin

In recent years the volume of spam has increased dramatically. Today most of the eMails that tried to be delivered is spam. However, the amount of spam seen by end users lower than some time ago because the spam filter has been developed and improved its quality. Of course, spam filters are also disadvantages. There is always a small risk of losing messages are not spam (false positive) and spam filters can be a significant resource burden. If there were a way to avoid manipulation of all spam messages (or at least most of them) to the mail server your mail server requires less CPU power, less disk space for log files, less traffic and the risk of false positives would be much lower if you could adjust your spam filter to be less aggressive, or completely avoid having to use it. There are several things you can do to achieve this goal. These tips work only for an email address or a new domain. If you already receive large amounts of spam that is nearly impossible to get out of all the spam databases. Hide your email address. Spammers will only be able to send spam if they know your email address. If you do not disclose your e-mail address, just give it to friends and business acquaintances, but not put on a website. Makes it difficult to guess your email address. Broker Address and spammers (or software) often try to guess email addresses so you can sell or send spam to them. Your address hard to guess. If you own the domain example. com does not use simple guidelines that Bob @ example. com. Use a combination of his name and surname and add a number. You might also consider using a subdomain for mail. Your new address could be something like Bóbr @ mail. example. com. Use a contact form on your site. To avoid publishing your email address on your site can use a contact form. Thus, visitors can still send questions via its website, the spammers will not be able to harvest your email address. To avoid receiving spam via the contact form you can use a kind of CAPTCHA. If you must publish your e-mail address that is difficult for machines to read. In some countries, companies are required to publish their email addresses on their website. If you need to do this than in a way that is hard to read for the machines. If you put your email address in a GIF image and display the image on your site, customers can see your address, but harvesting robots that do not. Your visitors will not be able to send e-mail by clicking on their e-mail address, but you must write your address in your email client. Do not put a lot of addresses in the Cc field. If you send the same mail to many recipients, do not put all their email addresses in the To or Cc (especially if some of the recipients who do not know is that some of the others). In this way gives you all the addresses of all recipients. It is best to use the BCC field or mailing list software. Instruct your e-mail partners to do likewise. Use a different email newsletters and web shopping. Of course, sometimes you have to enter your email address to people who do not know. You may want to subscribe to a newsletter or something of the order of an online store. We recommend using a different address for those cases does not need to use your right direction. If you have your own domain, you can even consider using an email address for each store or newsletter. If any of these email addresses starts receiving spam can turn it off without affecting your e-mail contacts. Last but not least – never buy anything from a spammer. Spamming is done because it is profitable. It is the only reason. If nobody would buy products advertised in spam emails, spammers would gain something and stop spam. So the single most important measure against spam is still and will always: Never buy anything from a Spammer!

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