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					  <title><![CDATA[The St. Joseph Email System and SPAM]]></title>
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If you&#160;are&#160;a St. Joseph email system user,&#160;you may have noticed some messages' headers having the&#160;phrase &#34;SPAM::&#34; appended to the beginning of the subject line. This is an annoying byproduct of our web host's attempt to prevent abuse of their email server by rogue advertisers who might take advantage of existing vulnerabilities. There has really been no&#160;rhyme or reason&#160;as to which messages were tagged with the spam flag. Some messages originating from website utilities (such as the &#34;Contact the Webmaster&#34; or &#34;Calendar - Submit Event&#34;&#160;forms) have not been tagged, while all messages from the ArticleLive software (which generates the website pages&#160;from a database) have been tagged. Some messages originating from valid user accounts and composed and sent via MS Outlook have also been tagged.This is frustrating for us all, I know, and I have been working with the support team at StartLogic (our web host) to eliminate the problem. In their latest correspondence, they have assured me that any email originating from valid user accounts at stjojo.net will not be tagged. Hopefully, this will be the end of the problem. However, should any user continue to have problems, please forward the message to



 StartLogic so that they can evaluate the&#160;case and correct it as necessary. If the message is confidential in nature, please do not forward it. In this case, just send me an email with the sender and recipient email addresses involved, and I will see to it that the email addresses are ignored by the spam filter in the future.Regarding email addresses which are posted on our website - all email addresses on stjojo.net are encrypted with javascript. This is to prevent automated email address harvesters from reading our email addresses and listing them in bulk email advertising camapigns, either by using them directly, or selling them to a third party. This happens everyday, and you can be assured that, if your email address is placed on a website in unencrypted form, you will receive spam because of this, sooner or later.Other ways that your email address may wind up on spammer's lists include:1.&#160; Your computer is infected by a virus, trojan or worm which harvests information from your computer, including email addresses.2.&#160; An acquaintance's computer (this could be anyone with whom you correspond via email) is infected as described in item 1 above, and your email address happens to be in their contact list, address book, etc.3.&#160; You enter your email address into a web form for whatever reason (subscribing to a newsletter, accessing a website, taking advantage of a free offer, etc.), and the webmaster at this location provides your email address to spammers. This is probably the most direct route to receiving spam! Be cautious about whom you share your email address with.4.&#160; Your address was randomly&#160;&#34;guessed&#34; by a script which generates thousands of possible addresses for a given domain and sends emails to all of them. In this case (and in any case in which you receive unsolicited bulk email) you should certainly not reply to it. This is also a good reason not to use autoresponders (settings in your email client which automatically reply to incoming emails). Once the spammer receives a valid reply, your address goes to the &#34;preferred&#34; list of email addresses, and you'll receive spam for quite a while just from one simple reply. If you need to use an autoresponder, limit the domains that it will reply to so that it only replies to domains that you may expect email from.So as you can see, even if you take great pains to avoid spam, you&#160;may still&#160;wind up receiving it anyway. You should, however, use common sense and protect your St. Joseph email&#160;address from spammers. If you do begin receiving spam at an&#160;unacceptable rate, you can set up spam filter rules in your email account&#160;by logging into the webmail service and adjusting the settings. If you need help with this or continue to have problems, please let me know and we can take steps to correct the problem. You can also have your St. Joseph email forwarded to another account in order to reduce the amount of accounts that you have to&#160;access (ie, you already have a personal or professional account and would prefer to read your St. Joseph email along with your existing email). If you need any assistance with these or other matters related to the website or email system, please let me know, and I will be glad to help you! Thanks for your patience with the email system.



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					  <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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