Help Fight Spam!

Have you ever wondered how spammers get your email address? Well probably the most effective method they use is WWW Spidering. This involves them setting up a "robot" program which wanders around the web looking for email addresses. When it finds yours its trained to add it to the spammers list and then spam you.

As we all know this is extremely annoying so many companies and organisations are developing measures to counter this.

Probably my favourite one is the email service bluebottle.com. It uses a method which automatically asks for human authentication of any email which arrive, and any which aren't authenticated never reach your inbox. This means friends who send an email will quickly get a reply email asking them just to reply with a message so bluebottle knows they are a human sending the email. Were a spammer to receive this, they wouldn't know how to reply because the email sending is done by computer. This simple technique stops junk email from even REACHING your inbox.

Another initiative is SpamPoison.com which asks you to put "Booby Traps" into your pages. This tries to render to Web Spiders (also known as Crawlers) useless. All the booby trap requires is that you link to this address ... http://english-20608182735.spampoison.com/

So if you have a web page, a blog...whatever. Help in the attempt to shut down email spammers!