For businesses, dealing with the ongoing issue of spam in their systems and communications processes is a real problem. Some consider it an unavoidable nuisance that comes with doing business online.  Workers tasked to monitor inboxes or website communications will deal with spam from time to time and each instance can be considered a small loss of productivity.  Spam is a black hole, a drain on business resources, and over time can suck hours of productivity out of workers.  However, this does not have to be the case.

Cool New Media can manage spam in your web systems, putting up filters and defences to limit the amount of spam that makes it to a worker.  We offer spam defence solutions to help protect your website from contact spam, comment spam, email harvesters, and other forms of spammers and spambots.

Tools and techinques Cool New Media uses to help protect your website include:

• Spambot block lists (prevent them from accessing your site)
• Honey Pots (attacts only spammers and takes them away)
• Captcha and other human verify questions
• Email authentication
• Spam Assassin
• Obfuscated email addresses on webpages
• Contact Forms instead of an exposed email address
• Other unique and innovative Cool New Media spambot traps and techiques.

Cool New Media clients currently benefit from our spambot defensive services.

For new clients, depending on your current website, we may be able to install and/or improve one or more spam defence solutions.  Contact us for a quick review and recommendation on how we can help your site.  Would look forward to your business.

More about Spam (electronic junk mail)

Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, social networking spam, and file sharing network spam.

Why does it still occur?

Spamming remains economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, and it is difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings. Because the barrier to entry is so low, spammers are numerous, and the volume of unsolicited mail has become very high. The costs, such as lost productivity and fraud, are borne by the public and by Internet service providers, which have been forced to add extra capacity to cope with the deluge. Spamming is widely reviled, and has been the subject of legislation in many jurisdictions.[1]

How do we fight it?

Developers around the world have begin projects and initiates to help fight spam.  Well know projects include: Project Honey Pot, Spamhaus, Abuse.net, Harvester Killer.  These projects work to identify and report spammers and create Blacklists, others work to indentify the patterns and behaviour of spambots and write code to trap them, others work to locate the spammers and physically stop them/put them out of business.

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For more information, Google "Fight Spam" and "Spambots" and learn about the protecting your busness from spam.