Fighting Spam - Must Know

How common is spam? The OMA Department of Public Affairs and Communications (www.oma.org) states: 'Studies show unwanted or "junk" e-mails, known as spam, which represent around half of the received e-mails. While originally viewed as just an annoyance, the prevalence of spam has escalated to the point where many users have begun to show a general lack of faith in the efficiency of e-mail transfers and growing concern regarding computer viruses through unwanted messages."

In 2003, Bush signed the "Can Spam" bill, the first national standards for bulk unrequested commercial e-mails in December 2003. Senters of unwanted commercial e-mail, which were passed by the Senate by a vote between 97 and 0, are prevented from using bogus return addresses to mask their identity (spoofing) and the use of dictionaries to produce these mailers. It also restricts the use of misleading subject lines and mandates the inclusion of emails and an opt-out mechanism. The law also prevents senders from retrieving website addresses. Violations are misdemeanor crimes liable to imprisonment for up to one year.

One important topic to highlight is that spam comes from foreign countries in ever-increasing numbers. These emails are difficult to combat because they emanate from outside the laws and regulations of our country. Since the Internet opens borders and thinks worldwide, these regulations are excellent and good, but not an end to the problem.
So what are you doing? She is the top 5 rules to protect against spam.

Number 1: Do everything possible to prevent your email address from being on the Internet.

Products called Spam Spiders are available that search the Internet to transmit e-mail addresses. If you are interested, try a "spam spider" search and you will be surprised at what you receive. Interestingly, there is an open-source WebPoison.org project designed for fighting spambots and spammers through the provision of fake HTML web pages that contain fake email addresses.

A few suggestions to you: a) utilize e-mails that can hide addresses or b) use addresses like sales@company.com to help fight the problem rather than your full address. c) There are other tools that encrypt your email, like jsGuard, that encode your email address on web sites so it is hard or impossible to read your email address when spammakers.

Number 2: Get software for spam blocking. There are a lot of programs for this. (for example, go to www.cloudmark.com or www.mailwasher.net). You can also purchase a professional version. Get the software, whatever you do. It's going to save you time. The software is not stupid, but it does help. You normally have to manually set up a manual to ban particular email types.
Number 3: Use the strategy to several email addresses.

Many free e-mail accounts are available. If you have to subscribe to newsletters, then you have an email address "back-up." It would be like giving your best friends your sales phone number and everyone else's business number.

Number 4: BAD, BAD, BAD are attachments of people you don't know.
Spam is commonly associated with the possibility of attachments and attachments having viruses. Corporations typically use filters that don't let you know about such things. Personal email for spammers is much more accessible country. General rule of thumb: Do not open the attunement if you don't know who sends you stuff. Secondly, check for filtration services. This type of service is also offered by firewall companies.

Number 5: Email services now feature baskets for "bulk-mail." If you don't actually support what you use, think about moving to a new seller. The principle is straightforward. They can send you emails if you know someone. Put them on the bulk e-mail stack and then "choose" to let them inside your cycle if you don't know them.

Spam blocking software also incorporates this principle, but it appears necessary to have more layers these days, therefore it is worth looking at.