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SPAM is the use of mailing lists to blanket
use nets or private email boxes with indiscriminate
advertising messages. Very bad netiquette. Even worse, it's
bad business. The future of marketing online is about
customizing products and information for individual users.
Anyone who tries to use old mass market techniques in the
new media environment is bound to fail.
The below are the steps to avoid a SPAM if you have not
MASS MAILED or sent UNSOLICITED MAILS to others. If you
have done so and started getting SPAM. Then there is little
that can be done to avoid it. Your domain may to be
terminated as it puts heavy load in the mail server..
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USE A SPAM FILTER
While there is no such thing as a perfect filter,
anti-spam software can help keep spam at manageable
level. If you are Linux customer, please enable SPAM
Assassin in your cPANEL. If you are a windows
customer, please send us the domain that sends spam to
you. We will blacklist it in the server side. To
report a spam and black list a domain, please click
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DON’T POST YOUR ADDRESS ON YOUR WEBSITE
It seems like a good idea at the time, but posting
your email address on your personal home page is just
an invitation to spammers. Spammers and the people who
sell spamming as a business have software that
"harvests" email addresses from the Net. This software
crawls through the Internet seeking text strings that
are -something-@-something-.-something-. When it finds
one, it catalogs it on a database of other email
addresses to be used to send spam.
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USE A SECOND EMAIL ADDRESS IN
NEWSGROUPS
Newsgroups are the great email address gathering
ground for spammers. If you post to a group, you’re
going to get spam -- it is just a matter of time. So
how are you supposed to participate? Use a different
email address than the one you use for talking to
friends and relatives. In other words, have a public
address and a private address. You’ll just have to
deal with the spam in your public account.
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DON’T GIVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS WITHOUT
KNOWING HOW IT WILL BE USED
If a website is asking for your email address, they
want to use it for something. Be sure you know what.
Read the terms of use and privacy statements of any
site before telling them your address. Ask yourself
some simple questions. Are they going to share or sell
my address? Do I want emails from this website? Do I
trust them? Is it worth the risk? If you can’t answer
these questions satisfactorily, if you can’t find
their privacy statement, don’t tell them your address.
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NEVER RESPOND TO SPAM
Oh sure, they say they’ll take your name off the list,
but they’re lying. What they really want to do is
confirm that they’ve got a live address. Also, if you
respond, they’ll sell your address to every other
spammer on the planet meaning you’ll soon be flooded
with even more spam.
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NEVER BUY ANYTHING ADVERTISED IN SPAM
The reason that people spam is because they can make
money. They make money, like all advertisers, by
convincing people to buy a product. If no one buys the
things advertised in spam, companies will quit paying
spammers to advertise their products.
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Block images in HTML messages
that spammers use as Web beacons A Web beacon can be a
graphic image, linked to an external Web server, that is
placed in an HTML-formatted message and can be used to
verify that your e-mail address is valid when the message is
opened and images downloaded. By default, Outlook is set to
block automatic picture downloads. To verify what your
automatic download settings are, on the Tools menu, click
Options. Click the Security tab, and then click Change
Automatic Download Settings. Verify that the Don't download
pictures or other content automatically in HTML e-mail check
box is selected.
Turn off automatic processing of meeting
requests
and read and delivery receipts Spammers sometimes resort to
sending meeting requests and messages with delivery receipts
requested. Responding to meeting requests and read and
delivery receipts automatically makes you vulnerable to Web
beacons.
Limit where you post your e-mail address Be cautious
about posting your e-mail address on public Web sites, and
remove your e-mail address from your personal Web site. If
you list or link to your e-mail address, you can expect to
be spammed.
Disguise (or "munge") your e-mail address when you
post it to a newsgroup, chat room, bulletin board, or other
public places For example, you can give your e-mail address
as "s0me0ne@example.c0m" by using the number zero instead of
the letter "o." This way, a person can interpret your
address, but the automated programs that spammers use
cannot.
Use multiple e-mail addresses for different purposes
You might set up one for personal use to correspond with
friends, family, or colleagues, and use another for more
public activities, such as requesting information, shopping,
or for subscribing to newsletters, discussion lists, and
newsgroups.
Don't contribute to a charity based on a request in
e-mail Unfortunately, some spammers prey on your good will.
If you receive an appeal from a charity, treat it as spam.
If it is a charity that you want to support, find their
number elsewhere and call them to find out how you can make
a contribution.
Don't forward chain e-mail messages Besides causing
more traffic over the line, forwarding a chain e-mail
message might be furthering a hoax, and you lose control
over who sees your e-mail address |
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