Are you ready to see a dramatic decrease in the number of unwanted Spam emails coming to your CLIS account?

What is SPAM?
Do you ever find yourself opening your Inbox, looking for e-mail from a friend or relative, only to find unwanted advertisements for "get rich quick" schemes, pyramid schemes, or even pornographic material? This is unsolicited e-mail, also known as "SPAM", and it is becoming a growing nuisance on the Internet. In addition to being annoying, it causes increased traffic on the Internet while also increasing the system load on the ISP's e-mail server, slowing down the sending and receiving of legitimate e-mail.

Most spammers are using re-mailer programs that often hide their true recipients, leaving customers confused as to how this e-mail found its way to their Inbox and wondering how to prevent receipt of future mailings.

What does CLIS do about Spam?
Cape Lookout Internet Services makes every possible effort to keep customers info secure and confidential. In addition to securing your privacy CLIS subscribes to Spam Filtering services. Our most common filter is through ORDB. ORDB.org is a non-profit organization which stores a IP-addresses of verified open SMTP relays. These relays are, or are likely to be, used as conduits for sending unsolicited bulk email, also known as spam.

Before you install additional filters, here are a few simple things you can do to prevent SPAM from reaching your Inbox.

• NEVER RESPOND TO SPAM - The reply-to address is most likely invalid. If the address is valid, you might even get a response saying that your name will be taken off the list, but you usually can't trust that they're telling the truth because you've just confirmed that they've got a live address for future solicitation purposes. Once your email address is verified as valid they can also then sell it to other solicitors, meaning that you'll probably soon be flooded with even more spam.
• DO NOT POST YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS PUBLICLY - This is just an invitation to spammers. Newsgroups and websites are some of the biggest e-mail address collection points for spammers. Once you post to a newsgroup or website, you're almost guaranteed to get spam. Spammers and the people who sell spamming as a business have software that "harvests" email addresses from places such as Internet websites or newsgroup postings. This software can be used to seek text strings that are in the form of an email address. When it finds one, it catalogs it on a database of other e-mail addresses to be used to send spam and/or sold to spammers. If you must post your address publicly, try using a different email address than your primary. In other words, have a public address and a private address. CLIS provide a second and third e-mail address that can be used for this purpose.
• BE CAREFUL WHO YOU GIVE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS TO - If a website asks for your e-mail address, be sure you know why. Read the terms of use and privacy statements of the site before entering your address. Ask yourself some simple questions.
       Are they going to share or sell my address?
       Do I want emails from this website?
       Do I trust them?
       Is it worth the risk?
  If you can't answer these questions satisfactorily or if you can't find their privacy statement, don't enter your address.
• NEVER BUY ANYTHING ADVERTISED IN SPAM - The reason that people spam is because they can make money. They make money, like all advertisers, by convincing people to buy a product. If no one buys the things advertised in spam, companies will quit paying spammers to advertise their products.
• "STOP SPAM" FILTER - This "Stop Spam" service will use the email header to identify and thus deal with the email according to your specifications. You will have the choice to either delete (this will permanently remove the email from the server) or forward the Spam to a folder (which should be checked and emptied every month). Please note that most Spam emails have certain headers that will identify them as Spam, this will also apply to Spam emails that may be forwarded to you from others. Please also note that CLIS only does minimal auto deletion and will not setup this service for each of our customers, some may not want or need it. However if you are seeing a problem with excessive Spam then follow the links below to setup your filter today!.

I want to filter SPAM... what do I do next?


CHOOSE YOUR SPAM FILTER OPTION

Please Note: CLIS is not responsible the loss of wanted emails using this process.