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This short article was published in Autumn 2008 and available at it's source publication here. Quoted article follows, with updated more current info bolded :
"Spamalot ... Hardly! Some readers and Green Living advertisers report receiving massive amounts of unwanted email "Spam," some of it referencing Green Living in the subject line. We assure you that Green Living has nothing to do with unsolicited email, and there is nothing we can do to prevent the criminal misuse of your email address. We took the issue to Matt Lampiasi of Florence I.T., a Green Living advertiser and overall cyberspace expert. Here's his response: Everybody gets spam, with some people get it worse than others. If you're buried in spam or otherwise don't know what to do about your problem, read on. Controlling spam needs to be addressed at a few levels, here's my short list: - First, remove email links off your webpage, or "cloak" them. One such way is with programmatic changes to your website. Some software programs will do this free. There are many approaches, contact us for suggestions or your web developer. We use a CMS (Joomla) for our website with this support built in.
- Never click any links in an email you are not 100% positive about. This can verify your address (that may have been guessed) with spammers, resulting in MORE spam. Sometimes just viewing a spam can validate your email address with spammers, resulting in MORE spam. Turn off image preview in emails for absolute safety.
- Use an ISP (Internet Service Provider) that has spam filtering. Almost all do, however some are better than others. Learn how to adjust the strength settings, and how to review what's being blocked just in case there are false positives. If results aren't what you want, consider augmenting this with an affordable, managed spam and anti-virus filtering service. We offer such a service and usually costs under a couple of dollars per email address, per month. This is a great choice if you run your own mail server, contact us for more info.
- If your email domain (yourcompany.com) has a "catchall" account that receives all unknown emails you might consider turning that off. For example, someone sends an email to "a_guessed
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" - if you have a catchall account it will forward even that junk to the catchall account.
- Use an email client that supports spam filtering , I use Mozilla's Thunderbird (mozilla.com). It will import address books from Outlook. Also be sure to compliment your ISP's spam filtering with antispam software which tends to be more affordable the larger the company. Currently a service based solution is cheaper, we provide a solution as noted above. Software is still one option, though our customers report the service is easier and costs far less over time with no software to procure, install and maintain upgrades for. If you start out with a fresh un-linkable and unpublished email address that is cloaked, you will be surprised how little spam you receive.
- For those online purchases that require you to submit an email address: get yourself a free GMAIL or Yahoo mail account for just such purposes. If you keep your main email as protected as you can, your spam problems will stay very manageable.
- Consider starting fresh with a new email address once you implement some of these changes, follow these suggestions, and your spam WILL be manageable.
For more details, options, costs and questions, call 413-303-9167." 
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