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Did you ever want to be the guy/girl in the white hat, fighting the bad guys and making the world safe for democracy? If you have a web site, you, too, can be a hero by participating in Project Honey Pot to help rid the world of spam.

Here's how it works. You sign up for an account with Project Honey Pot, and they issue you a dummy email address. You include this email address on your site. (Of course, you don't use this email address for any correspondence.) When the spam starts rolling in as a result of email harvesting by spammers, Project Honey Pot collects it, and reports the spammers to the authorities.

That's it in a nutshell. For more information, see the Wired article, Turning the Tables on Spammers and the Project Honey Pot web site.

PC Magazine tests the latest version of five spam blockers including Choicemail One, iHateSpam, MailFrontier Desktop, SpamBully and Spam Shredder, giving their Editor's Choice to MailFrontier Desktop 4.0.

As you may already know, posting your email address anywhere on web is a sure-fire way to increase your spam exponentially. Luckily there are ways to prevent the onslaught. PC Magazine's article "Protect Your E-Mail Address" tells you how to keep the spam at bay when you absolutely, positively need to post your address to a web site.

I opened a new email account a couple of months back in preparation for closing down my old one because of the large volume of spam it collects. Within a couple of days I'd received several spam messages on my new, never used email address. Obviously the address wasn't harvested from listservs, web sites, or chat rooms, or any indiscretion on my part. So how did the spammers get it?

My quest to find the perfect spam solution continues. As I reported last week, I decided to try Spamex to solve my spam woes. I've since moved on to Mailblocks, and think that this may be the one for me.

Email’s reputation as an efficient tool for home and business communication is being questioned these days, mainly because the spam that is flowing into our inboxes is devouring our day. You can judge the state of email by scanning such article titles as “Can E-mail Survive?” (PC Magazine, Feb. 17, 2004, p. 65)

I don't think I've ever met anyone who wasn't fed up with spam. If you'd like some help dealing with the constant barrage of unwanted emails, you might want to take a look at my article, Weapon of Mass Disruption, published this month in Searcher Magazine.