If you have Outlook, I highly recommend Spambayes. It's free because it's still in alpha testing, but in two months I have never had a problem with it. It's the most sophisticated thing out there. It uses cutting edge statistical analysis to learn all of these tricks that spammers use just like it learns what your legit mail looks like. It sounds far fetched, but it really works. It also spots similar patterns and It looks at the entire email including the header and it's. It's very conservative about classifying something as spam until it sees enough of a pattern, so it pretty much never put's good email in the spam folder. Considering that as a marketer, a lot of my spam mail has the same kind of wording as my legit mail, I'm impressed. It's supposed to be 99% accurate and for the average non-marketer, it probably is. Of course, you still download the messages before it can scan them.

Or you could dump that Outlook and go with something civilized like Yahoo Mail.

I'm trying to remember why I bookmarked your site...

Oh, yeah! Curious to know if you have any marketing advice for my current project (Screenwriting by Blog). Oh, and how do you get the little cutomized icon for the favorites shortcut to happen?

Happy Holidaze,

David

Now I have the answer to your question re the pen*s spam. You're cursed with it because your site spews popunders! It's simple karma really.

Ok, I'll let you be now.

Hi Carmen,

I have over 50 web sites and used to get 3,500 emails a day. I'm down to about 1,000 (argh!)

While it may be too late to get off the mailing lists you are already on, it is possible to prevent new spiders from crawling your web pages and finding your emails and adding them to new lists.

I ran across this technique to encode the @ symbol which stumps the email crawlers yet the email address will still look and work fine - example:

mick@creativepower.com

Copy and paste that into HTML and see what it will look like - it will look good to the surfer but the spiders won't see it as an @ (at least until they figure out that secret).

My spam count has dropped substantially since I did a global find and replace on all my sites.

replace @ with @

Hope that helps you avoid a little SPAM!

Best regards,
Mike Liebner
Creative Power
Los Angeles, CA

OOPS... guess that doesn't show as it would in source code... email me if you want the actual source code to hide the @ symbol.

By the way you can also do the same and encode mailto: in your code if you want to be extra safe.

Bye bye!

Mike Liebner