Fighting Spam
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Spam is annoying at best, but it can be time consuming and costly at worst. The main problem cited by many recipients of spam is that bandwidth costs are put on the shoulders of the recipients rather than the senders. Additionally, it can be personally offensive to receive vulgar or pornographic spam emails. We've seen hundreds of questions asked and answers given about spam over the years on the LED, and this category will contain them all, both from the the client and publisher sides. Topics are particularly focused on filtering and anti-spam solutions. More information: The best place on the Web to start is the Wikipedia entry on e-mail spam. From there many excellent resources are cited, and we can mention the Federal Trade Commissions anti-spam resource pages and SpamCop's spam reporting service (which is free) as being especially useful. Also check out this page on fighting spam which has some excellent tips for protecting your email address on the Web. Are there other resources I should cite here? If so please let me know. How this works: Each subject heading below links to a discussion page with all the posts in that thread. The date at left marks the original post that started the thread. Subjects here can have anywhere from a single post to well over 50 per topic. It just depends how popular that particular thread is. For more specific information, check out my handy-dandy How to Use this Site guide. The filter field below allows you to quicky find topics by title. Please use it with caution, though, because if it can't find a keyword match it sometimes throws an error. |
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