Spam-Dam.com

 The free spam filtering informational resource

This site is dedicated to helping people understand the many countless techniques available for spam filtering - blocking spam from arriving in ones email inbox, and the associated issues or caveats. The intended audience is anyone who is frustrated with spam, and who wants to do something about it. The primary focus is on organizations implementing their own in-house spam filtering solution - best practices. But the information presented is pertinent to anyone wanting to filter spam.

Every day, more and more spam inundates the inboxes of email users all over the world. The cost is immense. Even a small organization of only 25 users can realize a cost of over $11,000 due to spam. This figure accounts only for the amount of time it takes each user, spending only a few minutes a day, at an average salary, to manually filter through spam. No consideration is made for network bandwidth, disk space, or other resources.

Hard to believe? Perhaps - but you can see for your self with our exclusive Spam Cost Calculator. A few refining iterations with the spam cost calculator and you are likely to be surprised at how much money and personnel efficiency is lost due to spam on an annual basis.

This site hopes to help solve that problem by many means. Little can be done to control spam without a thurough knowledge of spammer techniques and the tools available to combat them. After all, if blocking spam were easy, it would not be such a lucrative industry. The problem is, that a thorough understanding of many issues is required before you can employ any spam blocking tool without making matters worse.

Networking protocols, DNS, and SMTP are some starting points, and needn't be daunting. Even a cursory amount of knowledge is usually enough to deploy most techniques available for blocking spam. This site will not only offer that cursory information, but more in-depth information as well. Hopefully in the most easy to understand presentation possible - it's your decision how deep do delve into any given subject.

So without further delay, lets get started. Please navigate the menu on the left to find some subject matter of interest to you. Please enjoy, and do not hesitate to use the Contact Us form to ask questions, and leave comments - nasty or nice - all are welcome - Oh, and I promise not to spam your email address....