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Dealing with Spam

Below you will find some resources including spam abuse reporting, email addresses for ISP Complaints, reporting to providers, Spam FAQ, and more.

The surest way to kill your business reputation is to use the means of spam for gaining customers or business. Ignorance is no excuse! Email which has not been requested is considered spam or unsolicited commercial email.

If you're like me you HATE spamming. The number one rule is to NEVER respond directly to a spammer. This will surely get you added to their lists as a valid email address.

Some spammers assume that it's no problem to just have you delete the unwanted email they send, but they fail to consider the fact that if an ISP is known to be responsible for allowing spam, they can be blocked from sending mail to other ISP mail servers. What does that mean to those who are running their business with that ISP? You guessed it ... their email and potential sales are lost.

Spammers fail to realize that some people are limited in the amount of email that can held on their ISP's server. Spam has the potential of causing the loss of your business or personal mail being delivered if your limit is exceeded due to email you did not want to receive. Just go on vacation or don't check your mail for a week and see how fast your mail allotment is filled with unwanted or unsolicited email.

Although it's in the terms and conditions of most ISPs agreements .. spammers fail to comply with the rules they agreed to. Report spammers to their ISP! Spam mail is not a harmless practice! Be sure to include all headers for the spam you received. Now if we could only get the ISPs to stop sending an autoresponse to our complaints :)

Join Cause and find out what legislation is being considered regarding spam.

Although it is very important to provide contact information on your web site, I have found that by supplying my email address on all my pages I'm only helping to provide this information to spam robots :( Therefore I tend to limit my email address to a contact page which contains the information and is setup to NOT be searched by robots.

There is an alternative measure you can take which would be to encode your email address so that these robots will not be able to utilize your email address for spamming and still make this a clickable link for visitors.

There is a free service available called Siteup which will encode your email address and then send you the results via email. There does seem to be a problem if your email contains a number with this service and they are working on a solution. For most email addresses this service should work just fine :)

Another trick I learned was using the command  prior to the placement of your email address and then  following your email address. I've been testing this to see if it works but have no way of knowing for sure the method in which these robots function in extracting your email address from your web site.

I'm sure some of the links below can provide additional information regarding the use of your robots.txt file and commands which will deter these spammers and spam robots.

Useful Links:

Our resources can now be located within our: [ Webmagic Resource Links ] database under the category "spam".

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