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![]() Where do Spammers Get Their Information? Before you can beat spam, you have to understand how, and more importantly where, spammers get your email address from. Spammers suck up email addresses from just about anywhere you can imagine. As soon as you post an article to an USENET newsgroup, you run the risk of having your email address vacuumed up by one of the many automated programs spammers use to compile victims' email lists... Promote your site on a What's New page, a free for all list or indeed just about anywhere and the spammers will get your email address. Post to a mailing list, and they're already lying in wait for you. Nowadays, spammers use automated systems to constantly collect email addresses, 24 hours a day and 365(6) days a year! This poses a bit of a dilemma... the only way to avoid getting spammed is to remain "invisible", but invisibility is the last thing you want when you are trying to raise the profile of your site! Fortunately, there are a number of things you can do to stem the tide of spam... Free Email Addresses : A Great First Line of Defence As we've seen, spammers go straight for the jugular of your email address. Well, what if you don't give them YOUR email address? That way, they won't be able to send you email! All you need to do is sign up for one of the many, many free email services that are provided by just about all major sites. I suggest that you sign up with an email forwarding service. free web site, Free E-Mail. anonymous email
7 Hints to Help You Survive Prepare for the worst: Always keep a backup copy of your website on your local PC (never make changes to your site by working on it remotely). Keep a piece of paper handy with full contact details (telephone, fax, email and snail-mail) for your ISP and web hosting company. Always keep a copy of all your outgoing email, especially the newsletter itself. Make sure you really ARE following the rules: Don't include anyone on your mailing list (even friends, family, colleagues etc.) without their explicit permission. Make people work to sign up for your newsletter by requiring them to email a certain address with a "subscribe" instruction or by providing a newsletter sign-up box on your site for them to add their address to your list. Don't surprise people: If your current newsletter is about Deep Sea Fishing, and you suddenly have an urge to start up a newsletter about Wind Surfing, don't send your existing readership a copy of the new newsletter and assume they'll be interested! Instead, post a short notice in an issue of your current newsletter inviting readers to sign up for your new newsletter. Don't trick people into giving you their email address: Make it clear what people are signing up for ("A newsletter about X") and how they can unsubscribe ("Just send your email address to xyz.com and we will unsubscribe you immediately.") Don't put people on your mailing list for any other reason (such as failing to untick or tick a little box on a feedback form, signing your site's guestbook, applying for an award you offer or downloading a piece of software you are selling) Always start your newsletter in a consistent way: The trick is to build familiarity; your readers have to learn to recognise your newsletter immediately. If possible, tie the subject line of your email to the content. It may not be wildly exciting, but it will help people distinguish your newsletter from a spammer's unwanted gibberings. Naturally, you need to make sure your newsletter's online archive is equally consistent. Always make it easy for people to unsubscribe: Give clear instructions about how to unsubscribe from your newsletter somewhere within the newsletter, perhaps in a separate section at the end along with your site's contact information. Test the unsubscribe mechanism to be sure it actually works; nothing irritates people more than being unable to get off a mailing list even after following the instructions. Finally, make sure your newsletter doesn't look like spam: Avoid the use of ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, excessive use of "!" marks, proofread and spell-check your newsletter well (when was the last time you saw well-written spam?) and above all DON'T say "This is not spam." as that's what all the spam messages say. Instead, explain WHY people are receiving the newsletter: "You are receiving this newsletter because you signed up at http://www.url.com/signup.htm." (Make sure this is true i.e. if people go to the URL in question they really will find the sign-up form they used to join your newsletter!) anonymous email. Free E-Mail
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