1. Try not to use generic easily guessable name like info, sales, webmaster, enquiry, etc as generic user names for your domain

2. It is possible to set policy on Mercury server is set so that emails without a subject will be rejected. A little extreme and should be exercised with caution

3. Reject pure HTML emails (email that display graphics from senders\' website). First, you cannot view the email anyway if you chose to read all mail in plain text. And if you can read it in html, you are telling the spammer his spam is being read

4. Set Mercury so that the IP addresses of spammers will be block from a central rDNS database by Mercury using DNS blacklist at Spamcop, Spamhaus, etc

5. Try not to post your email addresses on any public webpages. It will be collected through automated process using bots and spiders and in no time, you will get 10 different options to enlarge something that you may not have

6. Register an account for forums and newsgroups only if they have proper anti-spam policy. Some forums may have their member\'s information publicly available and they unfortunately get the blame for selling these info

7. Obfuscate your email addresses on your corporate website and if necessary use aliasing to the actual email addresses. e.g. tom.sales@yourdomain.com whose actual address is just tom@yourdomain.com. When you start to receive spam for tom.sales@yourdomain.com, just change it to something else like tomsales@yourdomain.com which will still be directed to tom@yourdomain.com

8. Change your email address if you are getting more than 10 SPAM mails a day. Like mentioned above

9. Do not encourage chain letters by forwarding the email to another 20 persons. Save money on bandwidth usage. Nothing bad will happen to you, only bad thing that will happen is disappointment for the originator of the email who\'s hoping to see his chain mail coming back to him

10. Beware of emails that claims that they need your help to transfer millions out of their countries & that they got your contacts from a trusted source. Their trusted source are actually spambots that goes around collecting email addresses from websites & guestbooks on websites. The poor chap will always have mishaps after mishaps that requires you to help financially

11. Do not believe that you are the lucky winner for some lottery program on the net. All these are age-old scams that have been ongoing for years already. You will always have to pay out a \'token\' sum of money to collect your prize or to proceed further.

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