There are several steps to take to reduce spam...

• Never provide an email address on a web site whose ownership you cannot trust
• Use a "disposable" email address if you have to supply an email address in risky circumstances
• Never select "Unsubscribe" from a spam received (this simply proves that the email address is valid)
• Remove email addresses from your website (spammers "harvest" addresses from websites)
• Do not have a "catchall" mailbox unless you can limit delivery to a series of "acceptable" addresses (otherwise all manner of randomly-addressed mail will arrive)
• Use a hosting company which filters email at server level for spam and viruses:-
  • You gain a first-line defence against viruses
  • Your mailbox doesn't get full of junk
  • Mail downloads are faster - less mail to collect
  • Reduces time wasted manually checking through the junk for valid mail

Solution

• We provide spam/virus filtering at server level - see http://www.proteus.lu
• We can rework a web site to prevent address harvesting.
• We provide "restricted" catchall mailboxes.

Contact us for more information