Problems With Spam? Learn How To Treat It.

The first step in your antispam campaign may well be to understand spam and how it works.

Spam is usually defined as unsolicited e-mail that is delivered in bulk. It has become so prevalent because it’s cheap, reaches the greatest number of folks in the least amount of time, and because it’s unregulated. In the U.S. alone more than 50 million citizens are online, with their own Internet accounts.

For spammers this is an ideal situation. Even were it not to work, there’s virtually no punishment other than subsequent inability to spam until a way is found around it. And ways are constantly found around just about everything we do in our antispam campaign. That’s not to say you shouldn’t try though.

Here are some of the things you can do:

First, don’t respond – not even to say, “Hey you not nice person, get off my computer.” First, it’s a waste of time. As soon as the first batch of spam has been sent that spammer may very well have deleted that email address. It’ll just bounce back. The second is that you’re not talking to a live person anyway. And any response, no matter how...