If your mailbox is overflowing with spam, here's some tips on separating the good stuff from the bad stuff:
Spam filtering techniques
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The problem of unsolicited e-mail has been increasing for years, but help has arrived. In this article, David discusses and compares several broad approaches to the automatic elimination of unwanted e-mail while introducing and testing some popular tools that follow these approaches.
Unethical e-mail senders bear little or no cost for mass distribution of messages, yet normal e-mail users are forced to spend time and effort purging fraudulent and otherwise unwanted mail from their mailboxes. In this article, I describe ways that computer code can help eliminate unsolicited commercial e-mail, viruses, trojans, and worms, as well as frauds perpetrated electronically and other undesired and troublesome e-mail. In some sense, the final and best solution for eliminating spam will probably take place on a legal level. In the meantime, however, you can do some things from a code perspective that can serve as an interim solution to the problem, until (if ever) the laws begin to evolve at the same rate as public frustration. |
One other thing I do is "scramble" my email address on my website using a tool such as this: Free Email Address Scrambler. I know it works - I have had my web site running for a couple of years now, and I have not received any spam at all to that address. That's because spambots trolling through the html on websites cannot recognise the code, even though it appears quite normal to people visiting the site.
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