subject: Methods to Avoid Spam - In Fact, Kill Spam in 10 Minutes Or Less For Free [print this page] Do not take the spam as an easy issueDo not take the spam as an easy issue. It may create lots of troubles in your website, if you fail to attend to it immediately. This is my personal experience. I just ignored all these basic things while setting up my website. The result was that I was forced to spend huge dollars and my valuable time to buy anti-spam software. Here is my personal experience on how I got affected by spam mails.
The major mistake I did was leaving my e-mail id in the website. I thought this would be convenient for my customers to contact me. So, when the customers click the reply link it will open a new message box, where, to address will be stored automatically. I thought with this facility my customers can contact me, but did not think of the spammers. Along with genuine clients, some spammers entered my site and gathered all my personal details. The result is I am frequently getting spam messages in my mail box instead of genuine business mails.
I got the solution accidentally, when I was browsing the internet in search of a product. I just tried to click the link of the e-mail ID, but instead of e-mail ID I found a graphic design. This is the latest technology used to separate spam bots and genuine customers. I understood that spammers cannot harvest the information from these sites and now I too have this technique in my site.
Here are some of the best solutions I came to know to avoid spam.
* You can use CAPTCHA to verify the visitor's information. This is the method of typing the letters and numbers disguised in random pictures.
* You can replace the e-mail hyperlinks with graphic designs. In this method your e-mail ID will not be disclosed and cannot be harvested. The spam bots will again have to do image typing which takes more time. By that time the spam bots will leave your site.
* You can use auto responders in your site to escape from the bots. Auto responders will send the users messages along with your real e-mail address. And through this method, only genuine users can contact you. Bots will be filtered by the autoresponders.
Conclusion:
The best ways to stop spam bots are: using JavaScript and Mod_Rewrite. These are the two techniques that can block the spambots and spy bots from harvesting your e-mail address and other personal information. Javascript is easy to use, but Mod_rewrite system needs some technical knowledge.
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Methods to Avoid Spam - In Fact, Kill Spam in 10 Minutes Or Less For Free
