Redirecting Unsolicited and Harmful Spam through Boxbe.com

Introduction

In basic and small Catholic web site development, there is also a need to follow web standards like the Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility (www.webcredibility.org/guidelines/). One of the 10 guidelines Stanford University gives as part of its research, is the importance of making it easy for site visitors to contact the web site administrator. So in building a small Catholic web site, credibility can be obtained if the contact information on the site is clear: phone number, physical address, and email address. This article will focus on how we can help site visitors use an email address with ease and at the same time redirect unsolicited and harmful spam from our web developer email inbox.

Email spam

Email spam is one of the problems that any small Catholic web site developer has to deal with. It especially becomes a problem when the developer creates an email form with a PHP script that processes it and sends it to the web developer's official email inbox. Although one way to control this spamming is to create more complicated PHP scripts (or installing one such as PHP Mailer), an easier way to solve email spam is to avail of Boxbe.com's email service. When you register for a Boxbe.com account, the site can help you redirect all harmful spam to a public email account.

What Boxbe.com can do

If you use an official email for your small Catholic web development work, you can lift out all references to this email address from your contact information pages and your PHP mail function of your PHP script. Then, just replace it with a Boxbe.com email address that can redirect all email messages to a public email address of your preference. You can then reserve your formal web developer email address for all formal communication with sites related to basic and small Catholic web site development: Google sites network, social networking sites, your web hosting service company, your blog hosting service, Catholic news sites, and other sites that you formally avail of in developing your Catholic site, blog and social network.

Avail of the Boxbe.com widget

Since any site that is well-optimized for the search engines will be a public site (because it can be accessed by searchers of information on the Web), we can make it easier for site visitors to contact us for our services if we place a Boxbe.com widget with a "mail to" link on a web page. With this widget feature, those who are really seeking for information on the Catholic faith can easily send their email message. At the same time, we can protect our formal web developer email address from spambots that roam around the Web.

Conclusion

To save on time, energy and money in dealing with unsolicited and harmful email spam, we need not purchase anti-spam applications or programs for small Catholic web site development and social networking. Using Boxbe.com's email service can help us redirect all unsolicited email messages to a public email address of our preference. It also saves us on a lot of email space in our formal web developer email inbox. Whereas before we may have taken time to delete these spam messages to reclaim the storage space of our email inbox for more formal communication, all these spam will now be redirected to a public email address which we need not open regularly as our formal web developer email inbox.

Dennis Emmanuel Cabrera
Web Site Administrator

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