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Internet Fraud

Fighting Spam

Spam has become a very serious problem, costing companies billions of $ per year in non-productive time. Spam is a particular problem for anyone owning websites or for web design companies trying to service clients. Fortunately, there are several laws being considered that should help diminish the Spam problem. California just enacted laws with stiff monetary penalties for spammers. The Usenet news groups have been able to combat the problem through individual group moderators, many of which are quite keen on detecting "Spamming Runs".

There are 2 major spam problems that many Web development companies are faced with:

1. How to submit URLs to search engines and listing agencies for themselves and clients without being besieged by spam.

It has been our experience that the so called FFA's (Free For All Link Sites) are nothing but spamming agencies that build spam mailing lists from site submissions. The best practice is to not submit to them at all. Most of the site submission software has default exclusion settings for FFA sites. We recommend ALWAYS excluding FFA sites. Another good practice is to build a submission e-mail for your client and submit their site under that address. Ocassionally it will require purging.

2. Another problem is being able to include linked e-mail addresses for legitimate business contact on a website. One way to help fight this problem is to make sure and include a "robots.txt" file in your site's root directory. It should specificly exclude all access to the cgi bin and to known abusive robots that harvest e-mail addresses and eat bandwith. Using robots blacklists, we have built a "robots.txt" file for ourselves and clients. You are welcome to review and use it at http://www.mountaineagleweb.com/robots.txt . We make no guarantees for it's effectiveness nor offer updates. Unfortunately there are also rogue robots that do not honor the "exclude" command standard.

There are many ways of handling spam at different levels on both the server and client sides. The links below should help keep you informed on current spamming laws and counter measures including ways to fight back.

spam.abuse.net - "Since we presented this site to the public in 1996, we have been pleased to be referenced as one of the best anti-spam sites on the net. Help fight spam to keep the Internet useful for everyone. Take advantage of the information we've gathered to make your own experience on the Internet better."

petemoss.com - spamNEWS is a daily journal of aggregated news articles about junk e-mail, and Internet marketing.

http://www.ordb.org - (Open Relay Database org) - ORDB.org is our attempt to help in the fight against spam. For further information about ORDB.org, please refer to the about- and FAQ-sections, where exhaustive information may be gathered.

CAUCE.org - The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email - UCE is the leading complaint of Internet users. But junk e-mail is more than just annoying, it costs Internet users and Internet-based businesses millions, even billions, per year. Junk e-mail is "postage due" marketing; it's like a telemarketer calling you collect. The economics of junk e-mail encourages massive abuse and because junk e-mailers can get into the business very cheaply, the volume of junk e-mail is increasing every day.

SpamCop - This site started in 1998 and remains the premier spam reporting service. Recognized by ISPs, search engines and the press. Google lists over 4,000 sites linking to spamcop.net.

UXN Spam Combat - Spam Complaints Assistant. Spam Tracing and reporting tools.

Affiliate Programs

There are many good affiliate programs. We recommend never engaging in one that extends more than two tiers to avoid scams. The most effective click throughs occur when your affiliate programs match your Site content. Some of the better one's are listed below:

 

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