Junk Mail Blues?

Here are some steps you can take to cut down on the junk mail you get.

• Never, never, never spell out an email on the website. If you put it in clear language, those nasty spiders will find it and sell it to someone that wants to fill up your inbox with junk. So fool the spiders!
   
  • Use ASCII characters instead: don't put the phrase "mailto:address@isp.com " anywhere on your website. Instead, type in the following (as I did above!):

  "mailto:address@isp.com"
   

  • Use javascript to fool the spiders. Spiders don't analyze code, they just read it, so create a script something like this:

    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    var name="address@";
    var isp="isp.com";
    document.write("<a href=mailto:" + name + isp + ">email me</a> ");
    </script>
     

• Use your domain name to automatically filter some emails for you! (This option will no longer allow any emails that come to your domain with "bad" emails to come to you any more. They will be dropped.)

1. Go to www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/monstercontrols and login.
2. Select "Email Options"
3. Select "email redirects"
4. Change the first redirect, which on the left says "default" and on the right had the email address to which all email was going. Change the email to the word "default". Scroll down the page and click on "Add/Edit Redirects
5. Select "simple autoresponders"
6. Under "Email Address" enter "default" and under "Message to Send" enter something like this:
7. This is not a valid email address, and the message has been automatically deleted. If you need to contact us please go to our website at www.yourdomainname.com and select an email address from there.
8. Scroll down and click on "Add Autoresponder"
9. Select "Log Out" and you are done!

There are variations on the above techniques. You can also go to www.mailwasher.com and get their program. It will go to your mail server, and check the senders against known spammers, deleting for you the known spam and sending them a message that makes it look like your email is not a valid address.

I wish your anti-spam efforts success!