Spam Prevention nightmares Spam prevention has been a nightmare for all involved since even before I began CharlesWorks in 1998. Spammers: they are always trying to find ways around the spam protection. Email users: It is a constant battle trying to sort spam from...
I cannot begin to tell you how many people believe that once their website is done they are "all set". Many think they don't have to do anything more to it once it is out there live. While that may seem true in that moment, there is still much that needs to happen and...
Akismet provides a convenient and free way to protect your personal WordPress site or blog from spam. Many times we'd like to allow comments to be left on our WordPress site. The hassle with this can be the tremendous amounts of spam that come through the forms on...
Almost all businesses get the usual spam SEO (Search Engine Optimization) phone calls and emails. Recently, one of our web clients took a spammer's SEO phone call. As a result of such calls, she emailed us. Her concerns prompted this article. She expressed a lot of...
Google provides a free reCAPTCHA system that anyone with a Google account can use. It is much more effective because it is harder for form bots to figure out workarounds for. Note: Unfortunately, we at CharlesWorks do not have any control over how Google handles the...
Even though advertising is essential for any business, a referral from another client is usually the best. The staff here have decades of networking and experience with other businesses in the community. Please think of CharlesWorks as your trusted business resource....
Log in to your mail account on the mail server securely at https://mega.charlesworks.com: To mark an email as spam, right click on the mail item you want to flag as spam, then select Actions > Mark > Spam NOTE: If you flagged something accidentally or something...
In many cases, email sent from forms in WordPress on does not make it to the Inbox of Google GMail addresses. Note: Unfortunately, we at CharlesWorks do not have any control over how Google or any other email provider chooses to filter email on their systems. If the...
Contrary to popular belief, computers - especially mail servers - don't really "know" anything... Spam - unsolicited bulk commercial email - is a huge problem on the Internet. In the beginning of 2013, reports from some Internet providers indicated that spam accounted...
Most of us who are connected to the Internet have one or more e-mail accounts that we have to check. Just about every day we open our e-mail, we find messages from companies and people we’ve never heard from before trying to sell a gadget or service that we just can’t...
