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How do I reduce the amount of SPAM I receive?

In our never-ending war to stop spamming and provide our clients with better service, we offer a proprietary Network Spam filtering technology on all of our shared servers. We stop over 90% of the spam mail that would have reached our customers' mailboxes using a sophisticated pattern recognition technology. This technology is integrated on all of our premium hosting plans (Plus, Advantage and Business packages). Please note that in order to ensure we do not block valid e-mail, we do not allow our clients to edit the filters as they are server-wide settings.
If you are checking your mail Netfirms Webmail, please browse to the following online FAQ which will instruct you on how to enable spam filtering in Webmail: http://support.netfirms.com/article.php?id=286
You may also consider setting up a spam filter to work locally with your POP mail program. For instance SpamFighter (www.spamfighter.com) and MailWasher (www.mailwasher.net) are both available for Outlook or Outlook Express. We have received feedback from users of these programs that they are effective in helping reduce the amount of unsolicted e-mails you may receive. Or you may also visit the following link to a review several other products that may be helpful: http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Security_utilities/4502-3681_16-0.html?tag=dir-av
Other tips in minimizing spam/junk mail to your account:
1. Don't publish your email address on your web pages but rather use web forms to receive email. If you wish to publish your email address, place it in an image. This way web crawlers cannot spider through your web pages and extract coding to get your email address
2. Don't submit your email address to public forums, mailing lists, newsletters, etc. Similarly don't give out your business card that contain your email address to contests or draws as often the info. get submitted to marketing campaigns where any number of individuals may have access to your e-mail address information.
 
3. For POP clients, filter email into a "junk" or "spam" folder which can be configured to be auto-deleted.

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