Spam! One of the most annoying, time consuming things we are always subjected to when we check our daily emails. Why do we get them and how do we stop them from sending us spam?
This is really a tough question since all we can do is report them to whoever our email service provider is and pray that we may find our inbox spam-free someday. If you use a desktop email client such as Outlook, Microsoft has a feature that flags junk mail and either puts them in a junk folder or deletes them permanently. Any of these solutions are actually limited to managing your email when they get to you instead of managing them when they get to the server. Messages can be blocked as they are received by the server but it seems that it’s a bit risky when some legitimate email gets thrown in by mistake.
Well, spammers have moved on and have found other venues to dump their junk messages in. I once had a blog which was open to the public where they could post their comments without having to register. Although, in an ideal world, this would have been great, the fact that it was open to anonymous posters.
So far the simplest deterrents for spambots registration and posting are the implementation of Visual Confirmation during registration, and account activation over email. If they can’t get pass the visual confirmation and the email activation, they won’t be able to post anything anyway.
