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• These sites will report the spam on your behalf to the isp.
• Some hosting services have strict acceptable-use policies that prohibit customers using spam to promote their sites, while many other providers don't seem to care.
• Usually the label is only applied to sites that not only know they are producing spam, but are not doing anything about it.
• Often used by spammers to cripple spam-fighting web sites, or to blackmail businesses into paying protection money.
• Spam Tip: Read the fine print when filling out forms online, most forms have a box that has been pre-checked to indicate that your details can be shared with other sites for the purpose of sending you newsletters (read: junk mail), so make sure to de-select those options.
• Tip: Disable Active-X and Javascript except when visiting trusted sites, and always disable them afterwards.
• Portal sites are often open proxy machines belonging to unknowing home users.
• Search engine spammers exploit referrer spam by flooding sites with thousands of page requests that contain forged referrer links, in order to boost the rank of those referred sites.
• These sites are not necessarily spam sites, but the list is provided so that you may choose not to accept email directly from them.
• RBL (real time blacklist): An online database of email spam sites that may be used for email spam filtering, either on a personal basis or used by an entire site.
• Problem sites are added to the rbl almost instantly when spam becomes a problem, and are removed again quickly once the problem is dealt with.
• Referrer spam: Search engine spammers will exploit this weakness by flooding sites with thousands of page requests that contain forged referrer links, in order to boost the page rank of those 'referred' sites, or simply in the hopes that people will click on those links.
• Sites wishing to join usenet ii would be required to adopt and enforce anti-spam policies, and to peer only with other usenet ii sites.
• Some web sites contain active-x code to modify the surfers computer system, for instance, making changes to the browser default page (browser hijacking).

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