How to get solid email spam protection

Spam was once a minor annoyance. Then it became a major problem, both for corporations and individuals. Now most people accept it as a fact of life. But you dont have to.

Nearly all web-based email providers have built in email spam protection in their software. They highlight keywords like Viagra or even V1agra, to keep them out of the inboxes of their millions of clients.

Theyre also able to put visual identification protections into their software to protect their users from mass-emails of dubious origins. The visual email spam protection works because, more often than not, it is not a person sending out the spam but rather a program written or used by people that automatically sends spam. This is called a bot, computer parlance for robot. Computers cant see the way humans can, so the visual clues used to be impossible for them to decipher, which slowed the torrent of spam for a while.

But as always, innovation wins out and the spammers came up with software that was able to read these visual safeguards, reopening the floodgates. Visual email spam protection had to get more sophistocated and did, but it turned out not to be the cure-all end to spam that Bill Gates himself once thought it would be. Gates, of course, famous said that spam would no longer be an issue by 2006.

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