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YOUR FIRST WEBSITE

Sure, you have just created your very first website, you are very excited about it and you want everybody to know about it and your email address is a great one, but wait just a second... without your email address being encrypted or displayed as a picture, you will probably end up getting 100 or more spam emails per day in a very short space of time.
 
Don't reply to spam emails asking you to delete or "un-subscribe" your email address because all that will happen is that a spammer will collect it and sell it on as valid, current and active email address.
 
Don't be fooled with a seemingly "innocent" yet unfamiliar email messages about "something or other" asking you to un-subscribe from their mailing list if you no longer wish to receive their "newsletter".  What does that tell them? Yet again, that you are an active and responsive email address. You may get added to a list of email addresses to sell-on. Spammers like to throw in an innocent-looking but baited hook and see what they fish out!
 
Unless you are a customer, AI&I can't answer personal questions about how to eliminate spam, but you have the World Wide Web at your finger-tips. There are a few links below which you might find helpful.
 
http://www.dnsstuff.com/ DNS Stuff DNS tools, DNS hosting tests, WHOIS, traceroute, ping and other network and domain name tools. Comprehensive and easy to use. A very handy tool for the enthusiast or professional.
http://spam.deadbeef.com/lookup.php Lookup a domain or IP to get contact details to report spam or Security Violation. This report gives you the email addresses of the persons responsible for dealing with email abuse on a given network. If there are several contacts, simply block, copy & paste into your email TO: section.
http://www.spamcop.com/ SpamCop - Fight back SPAM!  Paste the internet header and body of text into the form and Spamcop works to figure out who sent it. It also creates a ready-made spam-report email to send.
http://www.geobytes.com/ Spam Origin Locator - Enter an email header to find its geographic route across the internet.
Very useful tool, especially with an email you suspect is a scam or from a phisher.