Anti SPAM Centre

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What is SPAM:

In the case of electronic mail, SPAM is any electronic mail message that is:

  1. Transmitted to a large number of recipients; and
  2. Some or all of those recipients have not explicitly and knowingly requested those messages.

It does not matter what the content of the message is. It can be an advertisement for a commercial product, a solicitation for donations by a charity, or a religious pitch by somebody intent on saving your soul. If it meets the two criteria above, it is SPAM.

SPAM is also referred to as Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE).

Five easy ways to avoid SPAM:

  1. Whenever you fill out Web registration forms, surveys and so on, avoid typing in your email address. If you are required to do so, look for a box that asks you if it is okay to send similar offers or information to you. Make sure you say no.
  2. Request Net directories (such as WhoWhere, Four11 and Switchboard) remove your name, email address, and other personal information from their databases.
  3. If your list administrator allows it, anyone can effectively spam you by issuing a simple command via email to display nearly every address on the list. Send a request to the list administrator asking him or her to shield you from such postings.
  4. Disable your easy-to-grab email address by inserting asterisks or words (for instance: you@NOSPAM.yourdomain.com, or you@yourdomain**.com). Then add a line at the end of your posting that gives your true email address.
  5. Delete all online membership profiles right now. All that personal information is a spammer's dream come true.