Do You Hate Email SPAM As Much As I Do?

January 14th, 2009 by Destiny Malone

Email SPAM drives me crazy. How about you? How many times have you missed an important message because it was hidden among all kinds of SPAM messages? How many minutes do you spend each morning sifting through the good, the bad and the ugly? The answer: too many!

Well, I wish I could offer a way to completely block out all SPAM and only SPAM from your inbox forever… but nothing is ever that easy, is it? What I CAN offer, though, are a few great tips for helping to reduce the amount of SPAM you do receive.

First and foremost, never put your email on your site for all to see without encoding it! Many people mistakingly think that if they put something like “Email us here” and simply link mailto:address@domain.com, then they are safe. But not so, my friends! This is actually begging for SPAM! It takes a couple of seconds to wrap your email address in some javascript to prevent unwanted SPAM spiders from snatching it up for their own evil devices. It just makes sense. Best of all, it will still show up perfectly normal for all your site viewers – no one would know the difference!

Don’t know code? No problem! Dynamic Drive offers this wonderful tool that will automatically encode your email address. It’s called the email riddler. Check it out here: http://dynamicdrive.com/emailriddler/ What I love most about this tool is that it gives you the option to display text (like “email us”) or display the email address itself — perfectly safe. It’s definitely a great tool you will want to bookmark for easy reference! After you encode it, just copy and paste the code into the html of your page in place of where you would have put the email address (If you need help with this, please call us).

Okay, so this works great to prevent future SPAM… but what about the SPAM that is already overcrowding your inbox? I recommend you get a smart SPAM filter where you can adjust the settings to help it better understand what is SPAM and what is safe. It will make your life much easier! Need some recommendations? Mannix Marketing has a whole team of specialists that stays abreast of the latest and best SPAM filters on the market. We can help set you up with with a filter that meets your needs. Call to speak with a friendly voice, ready and willing to assist you with this. You can reach us at 1-800-928-9154.

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11 Responses to “Do You Hate Email SPAM As Much As I Do?”

  1. Michiel Van Kets Says:
    January 20th, 2009 at 10:07 am

    well, gmail is a very effective, yet easy to install spam filter

  2. Destiny Says:
    January 22nd, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    Yes, gmail is great for filtering out spam. But for some users, it is frustrating to use because many html newsletters they may subscribe to will not display properly. Others find it annoying to have targeted ads surrounding their messages in gmail. It just depends on each user's individual needs to find something that works for them.

  3. Michiel Van Kets Says:
    January 23rd, 2009 at 3:01 am

    yes, but you don't have to use gmail in the browser, you can sign up with gmail to use it as a email server, yet still download them directly to your PC, you even don't have to use a gmail address, any email address will do.

    in other words; you just put the gmail server in between your own email server and your PC, so it only functions as a filter, nothing else …

  4. Destiny Malone Says:
    January 26th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Yes, I agree, that is a much more effective way to use the gmail spam filter.

  5. Upendraya Says:
    February 9th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    amazing stuff thanx :)

  6. Yagnaroopaya Says:
    February 9th, 2009 at 11:02 pm

    thanks !! very helpful post!

  7. Jim Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 2:17 am

    I’m Inviting all who are suffering from Email Spams to generate an Email Image and use it instead of using the email as text

    you can generate it through this site :

    http://killspam.info

  8. Sridharaya Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 5:31 am

    Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?

  9. Destiny Malone Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    Sure, just credit with a backlink to this page

  10. Marble Host Says:
    February 13th, 2009 at 11:14 am

    Hello,

    Thank u so much for the wonderful tips it was very helpful for me. Awesome

  11. Auto Blog Says:
    February 16th, 2009 at 2:06 am

    Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again, subscribed to your feed also, Thanks.

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