subject: Spam proof the website [print this page] The techniques described in the article would enable to reduce the numbers of junk mail receive from all sites.
Preparing
You need to do certain things before taking any action against the spam. The email software which you are using must have the ability to filter the mails you receive. For example outlook, Pegasus and Eudora support this function.
Fighting back
First action in fighting against the spam is to understand from where your mail address been found. You should carefully protect your mail address, once the mail address goes in the wrong hands then it would be sold to millions of spammers. While registering your domain name, you should give the contact email and if you give them the real email, then you has provided it to everybody and that includes spammers also. Rather use a different email for setting up your domain. Also if you provide your real mail address on the any web, or just to subscribe to the mail newsletter, than you are just asking the trouble for yourself. Rather the better option is to create a different mail address for each and every newsletter.
Your website
Your website is the biggest source of the mail addresses which is used by the spammers. Many of the websites list various contact lists and addresses. Even if it is written in the hidden form, then also your mail address would be captured. To resolve this hurdle, the set of javascript snippets would be displayed with your email address and would not allow spam bots to see it and it can be done at the time of website design.
The big battle, how to secure your website from spam bots
Search engines are the best way to get traffic for the web. But there are many other spiders also who visit your website for the specific purpose. They visit different sites, just to collect different e mail information. They even ignore robots.txt. We should use javascript and contact form in the place of direct email.
Use javascript
The main weakness that all the types of spiders suffer is the inability in processing the scripts. By adding a snippet of the JavaScript in the place of an email successfully shows the address invisible.
Use the contact form
A simple solution is to use the contact form and remove your e-mail information from the site.
