Intra-Designs provides Spam-fighting Web sites

October 2, 2003, Puyallup, Washington.
Spammers never stop looking for new resources to obtain email addresses, and now they even search Web pages. Spammers have programs which spider through web pages, looking for email addresses, e.g. email addresses contained in mailto: HTML tags [those you can click on and get a mail window opened]. They add these email addresses to their databases and sell them to other companies.
Direct mail was bad enough, but the companies that send the information out had to spend their own money to do so. Spam costs us, the people who receive it, and the companies we work for, in Internet bandwidth. Our Internet connections are slowed down for every spam message we receive.
Intra-Designs, Inc. (www.intra-designs.com) has found a way to fight back. Javascript, a programming language for the Internet, allows for Web pages to hide an email address. The solution isn't perfect, but this added feature should stop 99% of the Spam Spiders from obtaining email addresses from Web sites.
This service is being provided as part of the normal hosting and design package for all Intra-Designs, Inc. clients, and current sites are being retrofitted with the new technology at no extra cost.
Contact us, www.intra-designs.com, to get your Spam-fighting Web site today!

Spam Help

Spam is going out of control, but there is a way to help lower it; Spam Cop (http://www.spamcop.net). Spam Cop reports spam to the people who need to know, and it seems to work. Our spam has lowered from over 50 each day to about 10 every 3 days.

It takes some time to report spam, but it's worth it.
-Ty