Q: Richard I am having the same problem with my Frontpage web sites in receiving hundreds of spam e-mail. What can I do? >Dick

A: As soon as you put your email address on your web site, the SPAMMERS are going to find it. They have automated "bots" that crawl all over the web looking for email addresses. Once they get it - that's it. Within days you'll start getting hundreds, if not thousands of pieces of email a week from them.

There are a few things you can do to keep from getting spam on your web pages. You could create a graphic like I have that people have to type in, or just put your email on the web AS a graphic which would hide it from bots. You could use a web form instead of putting an actual email address online.

Of course, the BEST thing to do is simply get yourself a good ANTI-SPAM solution. I have a Microsoft Outlook filter that takes all incoming mail that doesn't have the keyword [599CD] in the subject and tosses it in my junkmail folder. Links on my web site then just have to have that key in the subject to get through. Keeps spammers out because they won't take the time to put that key in their databases.

One of the best things to do in this case is to use GMail (www.gmail.com) to filter your email. Simply set up GMail to read your email for you and it will automatically filter all of the spam out. You can then pull your mail down from GMail, and voila - almost no spam.

If you would like to see an example of how to do this, let me know. Maybe I'll turn it into a special lesson or two. I could make one for FrontPage users in how to keep your email away from spam bots... another for Outlook rules... and another one in how to setup GMail to filter spam. Let me know what you'd like to see.