After several weeks of research, we have come up with a way to deter this practice using what is called a CAPTCHA™ (an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart", trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University). It consists of a program that can generate distorted text that most humans can read, but current computer programs can't.

CAPTCHA™ can prevent bot-generated spam by requiring that the sender pass a CAPTCHA™ test before the email message can be delivered. It's not 100% spam proof, but makes it much more difficult. An example of a CAPTCHA™ can be found on ourcontact us page.

Any of our customers that are having problems with this type of spam should let us know, and we will set them up with CAPTCHA™.

XHTML is a combination of HTML and XML, so now we have a markup language that is useful on todays browsers, as well as future browser technologies.

XHTML pages can be read by all XML enabled devices, it's well formated, works in all browsers and it's backward compatable.

New customers will have their sites designed using validated XHTML, and over time, all of our existing customers will have their websites converted to validated XHTML. This is a fairly large undertaking, so existing customers should be patient. Eventually, all of Webs To Go sites will contain valid XHTML.

Here you will find information introducing new businesses as well as our seasoned customers to the many facets of the internet.

In "What's New" you will find information on what's new on the internet and with Webs To Go.

Under "How To" you will find step-by-step procedures on subjects that some people spend hours trying to figure out.

Finally, under "Web Tools" you'll find some of the tools we have found to be helpful.

So Browse around, check it out, and if you haven't already, give me a call. Your business deserves to go online.

Thanks,
Paul Lotfy
WebsToGo.net

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A forward Recipe is an email address that is forwarded to your existing email given to you through an ISP (Internet Service Provider). For Example - you@yourdomain.com can be forwarded to you@earthlink.com.

Once this is done, you can skip to the section on how to set up rules to place the *Junk* email into a Junk folder for you to scan on a less urgent basis, or, if you choose to simply delete it all as it is received. (see Create Message Rules).

A Virtual Mailbox is a mailbox that is assigned to you by us. You will have to set this up using your email client.

For example, using Outlook, you will need to assign a new email account for your business mail and set up rules to place the *Junk* email into a Junk folder for you to scan on a less-urgent basis, or, if you choose, to simply delete it all as it is received. (see Create Message Rules)

Adding an email account for your business email
You will need the following information from your Internet service provider (ISP): your account name and password, the name of the incoming email server, the name of the outgoing email server.

On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
In the Internet Accounts dialog box, click Add.
Select Mail to open the Internet Connection Wizard.

Enter a Display Name - this could be “Business Email”, Domain.com Email, or anything that would easily describe what the mailbox is used for. Click Next.

Internet Email Address - is the address you want to show up in your “From” line, and the address that will get emails when a user chooses to reply. Example: business@domain.com.
Click Next.

Email Server Names – "Incoming Mail Server" is the name of your incoming server. "Outgoing Mail Server" is your ISP server name (something like smtp.ispname.net). Click Next.

Internet Mail Log-on – This is where you enter your user name and password to pick up your email. Click Next.

Now, whenever you click on send/receive, Outlook will pick up all messages for all accounts. You can make changes by clicking on Tools – Accounts – Highlight your account name – click on Properties.

In the General folder you can change the name you want to refer to this server. For example, “Business Mail” or “Domain Mail” . You can also change your Name, Organization, Email address, or Reply address. Be sure “include this account when receiving mail” is checked.

In the Server folder, you can make changes to your incoming and outgoing server information. You should have no reason to change anything in any of the other folders.

When you send an email, you will be prompted to choose which account you would like the email to be SENT FROM.

To create a rule for your Junk Mail
In the Tools menu, point to Message Rules, and then click Mail.
If this is the first rule you are creating, proceed to the next step. Otherwise, on the Mail Rules tab, click New, then proceed.
Select the conditions for your rule by selecting “Where the subject line contains specific words”.
You can specify multiple conditions for a single rule by selecting more than one check box. In the Rule Description section, specify whether all of the rule conditions must be met before the specified action occurs (and), or whether at least one must be met (or). In this case, we do not need multiple conditions.

Specify the actions for your rule by selecting “Move it to the specified folder”.

In the Rule Description section click the underlined hyperlink “contain specific words” and type in *Junk* and click on Add. Then click on the hyperlink specified , click on “New Folder" and type in the word JUNK or Junk Mail or whatever you want to call the folder. Then click on OK The Rule Description will now spell out your entire rule.
In the Name of the rule text box, select the default name or type a new name for your rule, then click OK.

If this is the first rule you are creating, proceed to the next step. Otherwise, on the Mail Rules tab, click New, then proceed.

In the Rule Description, under select the conditions for your rule, click Where the To line contains specific people to specify the people or words you'd like Outlook Express to look for in messages. Then under Select the actions for your rule, click Move to Specified Folder. Under Rules Description, select the hyperlink “contains people” and type in the Reply name you used when you set up your mailbox. Click OK. Then click on the hyperlink “specified”, click New Folder, and name the folder “Business Mail” or whatever you would like to call the folder. Click OK.
In the Name of the rule text box, select the default name or type a new name for your rule, and then click OK.

Forwarded email is email that was sent to yourname@domain.com that can be forwarded to your ISP email address.

If you would like to send email or respond to email that were sent to you with your forwarded email address rather than your Internet Service Provider (ISP) address:

Click on Tools – Accounts – Highlight your account name – click on Properties.

In the General folder, change your Reply address to yourname@domain.com.

Now, when you send an email, your reply address will be yourname@domain.com rather than your ISP address.