Email Best Practice #2

Flag and Reduce Spam

Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, and indeed most other email address domains provide a unique facility for tagging the spam emails you receive – by simply selecting the offending spam email, and clicking the Mark as Spam Button.

You should actively use this feature, and not just ignore or delete these irritating emails. Most email hosting companies use smart algorithms to identify patterns of spam that have been tagged in this way, and they actively update their systems to be more effective in blocking annoying emails.

If a sufficient number of users flag similar emails as spam, then no-one in the public email address domain will again receive emails from that source in their Inboxes – it will be delivered straightaway sent spam folders.

Of course spammers are developing new tricks every day, so help your hosting company to help you:

Mark spam e-mail! Don’t just ignore and delete it.