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SPAM Blocking
SPAM is, and will be for the foreseeable future, a problem for anyone with an email address. Just as junk mail is to anyone with a mail box. Since Email is Electronic and by the very concept of the internet is accessible to anyone, it is hard to imagine how it can ever be controlled. We can't make laws that are enforceable in every corner of the globe, which is where a lot of our SPAM originates. But there are things we can do to help reduce the amount of SPAM which we have to pick through every day. We use two methods, DNS Blacklist and a SPAM Trap Email address.
DNS Blacklist
We use SpamCop for our DNS blacklist. SpamCop is a service that collects the IP address (computer identity) of known SPAM offenders. They have a list which is easily accessed on line by email servers such as ours. For every single email coming into our email server the IP address of the sender is checked against SpamCop's blacklist. If the IP of the sender is found the email is rejected and sent back to the sender with a message explainninng why their email was refused. They are also told how to dispute this rejection.
SpamCop is very careful about the IP addresses they add to this list. And they give the owner of the computer every chance to prove they are not sending SPAM. In most cases it is someone that is paying for the use of their email server and the server owner had no idea of the illegal use of their own computer software.
SPAM Trap
A SPAM Trap is an email address which is hidden on one or more web pages on our web server. If a SPAM company searches our pages electronically they will find this email address and "Harvest" it. It is a method used by many unscrupulous companies that compile and sell email lists to Spammers. If my email server receives an email to this email address it instantly adds the senders IP to our own blacklist and rejects email from that address from then on. A message is also sent to the sender of any message rejected explaining the reason for rejection and how to dispute it.
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