SPAM is costing business billions of dollars every year, it is time to fight back by Frederic V. Farcy.

With your e-mail address came a great new way to communicate almost instantly with people world wide. This great freedom as a price and it is call SPAM...

There is over 750+ Millions internet user worldwide and growing (see stats from cyberatlas) these users send and average six e-mails per days that is over 4.2 Billions e-mail per day - of this regular traffic add another 3.5 Billions spam e-mail per day. Spam is the action of flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send - most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender. This great new medium of communication has become the home front of a new generation of unscrupoulus marketing machine. They shower your e-mail accounts with advertisement for:

• Hair Products
• Weight Loss
• Instant Mortgage
• Gambling
• Pornography
• You name it they sell it.

Now if you have an e-mail address and you have been active on the internet (send/receive e-mail as well as actively surfing the web) for more that 6 months you are now most likely the target of SPAMMER.

SPAM is a tuff growing problem that has been ignore by many hosting company for a long time. There was no regulation on spaming until recently and even then what can you do when the spammer is located in main land China.

It's almost impossible for you to eliminate all spam. However, there are steps you can take to fight back. Here are 10 tips recommendation for fighting spammer.

HOW TO AVOID SPAM

There are two important facts to understand when it comes to spam:

• first you must adjust your personal Internet habit and behavior to make spamer job very difficult.
• second your hosting company must do its jobs to protect you from spam.

TOP 10 TIPS

We will now describe the top 10 most important tips you need to know to better arm yourself against spammer.

Tip No. 1: Get a hosting company that care and provide good spam filtering for you. TNTmax utilized the most shophisticated filtering method to protect it customers from SPAM by providing all our customers with the following included features:

• We will not host a spamming company, no compromise
• Filtering all email through well know spammer black list updated daily.
• Analysis of email content for obvious spam content and filtering
• Score rating of each incoming email using heuristic spam rules filtering
• Geographic address block filtering
• Filtering e-mail through customer personal ALLOW and BLOCK list
• Filtering e-mail through customer custom filtering
• Our team of experts provide the most valuable service of continually working to enhance and improve TNTmax spam filtering technique as the SPAMER change their technique

Tip No. 2: Don't give out your primary e-mail address Create a "disposable" Web e-mail address (such as one from an Yahoo®, Hotmail®, MSN®, Juno® account) that you can give when registering for free software or shareware, or even when ordering from a company online. You can also have two e-mail and

Only give your primary address client, friends and family, and then give the other for everything else you do. NEVER EVER USE YOUR PRIMARY EMAIL FOR REGISTERING ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES.

Tip No. 3: Never replying to a spam to request from being removed from their list. When you reply and type REMOVE in the subject line, this is a great way to let spammers know that yes, your e-mail address is up, running, and being used right now. It's like waving a white flag that says, "I read unsolicited e-mail. Please send more."

Tip No. 4: Turn-off auto preview feature of your e-mail client. Spammer will add small images to an email that when view by load by the auto preview feature of your email client inform the spammer that the email was open and that a live body is behind the email address. You will then get upgraded to confirm e-mail address status and sold to other spammer for a premimum.

Tip No. 5: Make use of laws against spam While anti-spam laws have not been enacted yet on the federal level, many states have adopted some sort of anti-spam legislation. A few examples:

• Congress move forward on Anti-Spam legistations read about it
• Colorado Junk E-mail Law prohibits the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail that uses a third party's Internet address or domain name without permission, or contains false or missing routing information.
• Anti-Spam Legislation and resources site
• New Jersey Two bills pending in the New Jersey Legislature would prohibit the sending of spam and would make it easier for consumers to collect damages if they receive unwanted e-mails.
• New York Proposed legislation, expected to be introduced in the Senate, would also require mandatory subject line identification of spam so recipients could quickly determine whether to look at messages or delete them if they make it into their in-boxes. The Schumer legislation will require all commercial mass e-mails and advertisements to have the letters "ADV" in the subject line, indicating that the messages contain commercial content.
• Washington It is illegal to send a commercial e-mail message that uses a third party's domain name without permission; that contains false or missing routing information; or that contains a false or misleading subject line.

While it's hard to know what to do with a piece of spam even if your state has laws against it, there is new legislation each year. Contact your senators and representatives to let them know how you feel about spam and ask them to oppose spam and to support legislation like the Can Spam Act , which will help deter the practice of spamming. Get involved it is your civic responsability.

Tip No. 6: Don't post your address on your Web page if you can help it, spammer use software call "Web Crawlers, softbot, spiders" that go around the web and harvest e-mail address and domain name into a spaming database.

Tip No. 7: Review Web sites' privacy policies I know that you're an Internet expert and that you can blaze through those online forms at lightning speed. Do read the whole thing for a change and be suprise of what some site will do. Some sites assume the right to share your information; responsible sites will give you a way to opt out. If the site does not have a "privacy policy" available for you to review then you should not do business with them until you get them on the phone and receive in writting what they will do with your personal info if you decide to do business with them.

An example: Let's say that you're in the process of purchasing a a book . You completed all the necessary fields shipping and billing info, and an e-mail address to receive the order confirmation (NOT YOU PRIVATE EMAIL). Now before you click the "place order" button, look around.

Are there any check boxes or tiny form fields on that page that are checked to indicate that you're fine with this company selling or giving away your e-mail address to "responsible" parties? Make sure you uncheck (or check, whichever the case may be) where necessary.

And here is a tip: Even if you did all the right things and found all the sneaky little boxes, make sure you check those boxes again if, for some reason, you have to backtrack through the form. Sometimes sneaky vendors will set the pages to go back to the default setting, thereby tripping you up again. Good grief, it takes such vigilance, doesn't it? (Yes, but it's worth it.)

Tip No. 8: Don't list yourself in Internet directories This is a tough one. If you're in the regular phone book, chances are you're in one of the big directories such as BigFoot, AnyWho, InfoSpace, Switchboard, and Yahoo!. Look yourself up, and there you'll be. There is probably a place to add your e-mail address (for free, can you believe it?), but my advice is: Don't.

Tip No. 9: Forward to your hosting company complete example of pesky spam you are receiving and do not forget to include the whole email headers with your spam e-mail.

Tip No. 10: Do not forward chain e-mail, that is plain sily and is elegal in most state. ALL CHAIN LETTER ARE SCAMS.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• spammer never use a real email address they use a forged or fake email address.
• spammer often blast email from poorly configure corporate email server, so if you receive so spam tomorrow from a company called johndoe.com then contact them and tell them to close open relay on their email server.
• spammer also hack/crack server for the main purpose of utelizing them for sending massive amount of email. Be up on your security or get help from experts.
• spammer change the rule of the game everyday so never get to confortable they are very creative and very clever, never underestimate your oponent, be ready.