Due to the sheer amount of email traffic that SimplyFredericksburg receives, we are forced to implement some SPAM filters to allow us to simply reduce the amount of undesired email so we can better serve our clients and visitors to the web site. Our email server will automatically remove email that contains the following words in the subject of the email:

ACCEPT CREDIT CARDS
Find Information About Anyone
GUARANTEE
Bankruptcy
BUILD A BUSINESS
Hidden Secrets
bad credit
INTERNET SPY
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Lottery
Pre-Approved
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No CREDIT?
I hope you remember me
SAVE BIG $$$ WITH US
Home Loans
Mortgage
LOSE WEIGHT FAST WHILE YOU SLEEP
FREE
Viagra
STOP SMOKING
GUARANTEED
Debt
SEX
nude
10 to 20 years younger
Million
Know everything about Anybody
Pay Nothing
THIS IS NOT MULTI-LEVEL MARKETING
Home Based Business
Bulk Email
naughty
Going Bald
MISSING PERSONS
retire
losing money
No Experience Necessary
PROFITABLE
REVEALED
Unclaimed Funds
Notification
Unclaimed Reward
Cash
$
WOW!
*
Cell Phone
SHOCKING
Must-Read
insurance
CDs
Airline Tickets
Round-Trip
Inkjet Cartridges
long distance
DVD's
Discounts
Casino
Notice
Get Your Own
Give Away
GOLD CARD
Phone Cards
Firmer Breasts
90 days
Had enough
Hair Loss
Drug
Health
Help Wanted
Anti-Aging
HGH
Hormone
Equity
Loans
HOT!
Hottest
Fat
MULTIMILLIONAIRE
MILLIONAIRE
How To 
I have visited
I was in tears
Important:
income
MasterCard
VISA
Instantly 
eSylvan
Patented 
Join
Blowout
FREEE
LOVE AND ROMANCE
Learn How 
LIMITED TIME
pounds
Lose weight
MLM
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Plus - Content-Type: text/html in the first line of the body
And - You are receiving this email in the first line of the body
Or where the subject lists any type of drug and scheme
Including any email that does not have a date or subject or a from line will also be rejected.

All outgoing email passing through our SMTP servers will have a special anti-spam (X-AntiAbuse) tracking tag attached to the hidden headers of the email.

All email addresses on the web site are masked to help stop the automated harvesting spam 'bot' or 'spider' from harvesting our email addresses.

Our behind the scenes coding that helps to run and maintain the web server also has special tags added to help foil the 'bots' from harvesting our email addresses.

Our gateway and firewalls employ the lastest anti-virus software to help weed our the virial infected bulk emails.

Why go to all these measure just to stop email? First of all, the traffic increases every day, that traffic ralated to SPAM slows down the network. It also takes time away from our staff who should be taking care of visitors to our site. And lastly, it is just plain old annoying. Oh, did we mention that SPAM in the CommonWealth of Virginia is also illegal? You can learn more about this law at http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=991&typ=bil&val=sb881 and http://www.everett.org/va-spam-law.html.

What is SPAM?
Simply put SPAM is unwanted or unsolicited email. However, the U.S. Government tried to make it illegal to send SPAM, but left a very large loop hole for SPAMMERS to climb through. U.S. Code states: Pursuant to Bill S. 1618 Title III, Section 301, Paragraph (a) (2) (c) passed by the 105th U.S. Congress, this message is not considered "Spam" as we have included contact information as well as an option to be removed. This means that they can SPAM you as long as they give you the option to be removed from the list. Unfortunitly the law does not make it a requirment for the SPAM to remove you from the list, they just have to offer you the option to be removed, they don't have to actually remove you. It is a good thing that we can still rely on US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B) where computer/modem/printer meets the definition of a telephone fax machine, which means that it is unlawful to send any unsolicited advertisement to such equipment. By Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a violation of the aforementioned Section is punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss, or $500, whichever is greater, for each violation." Plus if you live in Virginia, the code there has you covered, if you want to go through the process of tracking down the SPAMMER and procescute them.

There are some ways you can avoid SPAM.

First, start by avoid senting your email address to people you don't know. Then you can following the below guidelines and visit the below web sites for more information

NEVER Submit your site to FFA (Free For ALL) link sites - these are used by spammers as a trick to get your e-mail address.
NEVER pay any company who claims to know how to get you a top ranking - unless they offer a money back guarantee. 
NEVER respond to SPAM, this only validates your email address as active and sellable.

http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/nospam.html
http://www.caller2.com/autoconv/newsus99/newsus198.html
http://www.cauce.org/
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~trw/spam/
http://spam.abuse.net/spam/
http://www.sendfakemail.com/fakemail/antispam.html
http://www.stentorian.com/antispam/
http://pw2.netcom.com/~rrhain/html/spammer.html
http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html 
http://combat.uxn.com/