| Our web host uses the SPAM assassin software that inspects the email content and tries to determine whether the email is SPAM. Messages deemed as SPAM will have the line "X-Spam-Flag: YES" in the message header. You can use you mail browser to handle these messages appropriately (e.g. see the Rules Wizard in Outlook). |
| Do not broadcast you email address on web-sites, usenet groups, forums and archived mailing lists. |
| Be sure of the companies privacy policies you register with using your email address. |
| The idea here is to use a different email address for registrations and forums than your real email address. This means you can hope that you never get SPAM at your real address which you reserve solely for one-to-one correspondence. |
| This strategy only works if you are careful with your real email address by not using it for any registrations or postings in forums. If you need to put an email address on a web-page use an address like webmaster@your_name.adcroft.com. |
| This strategy will not stop SPAM from reaching you but it should be restricted to a particular account. |
| Warning: If you ever need to correspond with a web-site using your registered address then you need to be able to specify "Reply-to:" in you outgoing email. |
| This is the simplest strategy and requires just two addresses; your
correspondence address and another public address. In this instance, you use
the public address for all registrations, forums and web pages. For example, you correspond with friends using your_name@adcroft.com but use nospam@your_name.adcroft.com when you register with web-sites and forums. |
| This is a more involved strategy which will require you to keep track of many addresses. It involves registering with a unique email address for each on-line account and forum. A simple approach is to use the address site_name@your_name.adcroft.com. |
| If you ever get SPAM via one of these addresses then you know who gave out that email address. |
For example, imagine that you open an account with e-Socks.com. When you register with them you provide them the email address e-socks@your_name.adcroft.com and then be sure not to use this address anywhere else for any purpose. All correspondence from that site will go via the email address you supplied to your real email address your_name@adcroft.com. If you ever receive SPAM at e-socks@your_name.adcroft.com then you can know for sure that e-Socks.com provided (or sold) it to a Spammer.
Revised: 03/01/05.