Spamming is unsolicited bulk email. Recipients of spam often consider it an unwanted intrusion. Internet service providers (ISPs) consider spam to be a financial drain and an impediment to Internet access because it can clog available bandwidth.

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2. Suggestions to Minimize Spam

1. NEVER allow your email address to be visible to members of forums, chat rooms and other similar online groups. Spammers use web spiders, programs that search the content of the Internet, to gather email addresses. Most good online groups are set up to keep your email address hidden.
   
2. NEVER spell out your email address as html text on your website. Web spiders can easily recognize the text as an email address. As an alternative to making your email address visible on your website do one or more of the following:

• Best: Use FORMS rather than email links for your website's visitors to submit information to you. There is software you can use to create forms that require the user to enter characters to prove they are a real person. One form builder that is good is: CoffeeCup Form Builder.
• Better than nothing: Incorporate your email address into a graphic and then create an image map hyperlink for the email address.
• Better than nothing: Add your email as a hyperlink to the words 'email us'

3. If you are still getting lots of spam:
   
   a) You can try using a spam filter on your local PC, like Norton Anti-Spam.
   
   b) It may be late to save an email address that has been discovered by lots of spammers and circulated amongst them. You may have to start over with a new email address and follow #1 and #2 above in the future.
   
   You can transition to the new email address by creating an 'autoresponder' in your cPanel that lets people know - everytime they email the old address - you will be phasing out that old email address (after let's say one month). Don't put your new email address in the forwarder. You should tell them to email you for a request for the new email address or call you.
   
   Then after the one month, delete your old email address and only use the new one from then on.