How to fight spam – Part 4
Before going to discussion on “How to fight spam” we will see that what is the Spam? We can define it as electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Some people define spam even more generally as any unsolicited e-mail. However, if a long-lost brother finds your e-mail address and sends you a message, this could hardly be called spam, even though it’s unsolicited. Real spam is generally e-mail advertising for some product sent to a mailing list or newsgroup. In addition to wasting people’s time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many organizations, as well as individuals, who have taken it upon themselves to fight spam with a variety of techniques. But because the Internet is public, there is really little that can be done to prevent spam, just as it is impossible to prevent junk mail. However, some online services have instituted policies to prevent spammers from spamming their subscribers.
Through various techniques we can protect our network from spam as:
1. Spam is the electronic world’s biggest problem. A fool proof method of filtering out spam does not yet exist, but we don’t have to sit back and take it. Anti-Spam pages like this one make spamming less profitable and is our way to help FIGHT SPAM.
2. When a spammer’s program visits your web page, they will check all the pages that you link to for email addresses. So, all you have to do is link to this page and whenever a spammer’s program scans your page, they will be sucked into this one. To link to this page use this simple code:
Anti Spam
3. For those of you that don’t want to read all the details and are ready to jump right into the web security audit, then follow the five steps below; however, I highly recommend you read all the intrusion prevention material on this page before doing so.
Take our Firewall Test, it’s fast and very accurate.
Take our Anonymous Surfing and privacy test.
Test your Intrusion Prevention Software.
Take our Popup Test.
Visit our Web Security Resources for great products that help secure your system!
Almost all of these have been written by myself and I have gone to great lengths to make it understandable by just about anyone. If, when reading, you find Anti-Spam tips that could be worded in a form that would make more sense, please let me know.
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