8 Ways To Stop Spam

1. Keep three email addresses,
1. one for signing up (throw-away address),
2. one for customers,
3. and one for family.

2. Make the family email only for close friends and family. Guard it with your life.

3. Use disposable addresses for risky activities, like signups for newsgroups and newsletters. Throw away your throw-away address every month or two. Don't be tempted to use it for communicating with any real person.

4. Put the customer email address on your business cards, give it to acquaintances but never publish it on the web in plain text.

5. Never publish your email address in plain text on the web!

6. Never on the web in plain text publish your email address! Instead, obsfucate the address using this handy tool: anti-spam tool

7. Use a CGI form-mailer on your website. Your address is hidden inside the CGI script on your web server. This makes it Impossible for spammers to harvest.

8. Choose a user-name that is not likely to be in a spammer dictionary. For example, _don't_ use "jsmith@mydomain.com"! Use something more creative: "j.smith.parachuting@mydomain.com".

That's only seven ways, but that's how you stop spam, using the "public hygiene" approach. Of course, it is nearly impossible to follow these rules, so that's why we wrote this anti spam software to stop spam on existing addresses.