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Just a further comment on the 2nd part of Eric's advice
I cant believe that most people don't own their own domain name
I own about 5 and don't have even one website up and alive!
E.g. I own the domain mcd311.biz - cost me $4.95 US a year for 3 years = about $20 Aussie
Why would you want a domain without a website - for email.
Here's what I do.
Let's say I discover this great new website and I want to subscribe to their forums or their newsletter.
I own the domain mcd311.biz and can control all email sent to that domain so when asked for an email address I put in abc@mcd311 .biz where abc is a word or phrase to remind me of the site. eg myb@mcd311 .biz
You then setup the forwarding for your domain. If your domain is hosted by an isp then they do this for you but it is very easy to go to someone like www.mydomain.com or www.godaddy.com to buy the domain and use their free services to set it up yourself.
I have my domain set up to forward all email from that domain to a specific address using a catchall.
So if anything is sent to an address ending in @mcd311.biz it gets forwarded to my 'real' address.
Then I monitor what comes to me. If I start getting spammed at a specific address I just cancel the forwarding for that mail and it bounces back to the sender.
So if myb@mcd311 gets picked up by spammers I just come here, login and change my address to a new one and then go to my domain host and set myb@mcd311 to bounce and voila!
The best thing of all is I am ISP independent and advertising myself.
Why would you advertise Telstra or Optus or whoever when you can advertise yourself!
mail@yourbusiness makes a lot more sense to advertise than yourbusiness@bogpond etc.
Plus if you get sick of bigpond and move to a local ISP (recommended!) then you just set your email to forward to your new address.
No change in advertising - your customer is still sending to mail@yourbusiness they don't notice any difference at all
Anyway that's another cheap (but not free) way to fight the spam war.
I cant believe that most people don't own their own domain name
I own about 5 and don't have even one website up and alive!
E.g. I own the domain mcd311.biz - cost me $4.95 US a year for 3 years = about $20 Aussie
Why would you want a domain without a website - for email.
Here's what I do.
Let's say I discover this great new website and I want to subscribe to their forums or their newsletter.
I own the domain mcd311.biz and can control all email sent to that domain so when asked for an email address I put in abc@mcd311 .biz where abc is a word or phrase to remind me of the site. eg myb@mcd311 .biz
You then setup the forwarding for your domain. If your domain is hosted by an isp then they do this for you but it is very easy to go to someone like www.mydomain.com or www.godaddy.com to buy the domain and use their free services to set it up yourself.
I have my domain set up to forward all email from that domain to a specific address using a catchall.
So if anything is sent to an address ending in @mcd311.biz it gets forwarded to my 'real' address.
Then I monitor what comes to me. If I start getting spammed at a specific address I just cancel the forwarding for that mail and it bounces back to the sender.
So if myb@mcd311 gets picked up by spammers I just come here, login and change my address to a new one and then go to my domain host and set myb@mcd311 to bounce and voila!
The best thing of all is I am ISP independent and advertising myself.
Why would you advertise Telstra or Optus or whoever when you can advertise yourself!
mail@yourbusiness makes a lot more sense to advertise than yourbusiness@bogpond etc.
Plus if you get sick of bigpond and move to a local ISP (recommended!) then you just set your email to forward to your new address.
No change in advertising - your customer is still sending to mail@yourbusiness they don't notice any difference at all
Anyway that's another cheap (but not free) way to fight the spam war.
Matt Dell
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