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Anti-spam techniques
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<p>Various anti-spam techniques are used to prevent <a href="/facts/Email_spam/ARJr6Aem">email spam</a> (unsolicited bulk email). </p><p>No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has <a href="/facts/Trade-off/xY3nXnJN">trade-offs</a> between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (<a href="/facts/False_positive/jkC44hML">false positives</a>) as opposed to not rejecting all spam email (<a href="/facts/False_positives_and_false_negatives/jkC44hML">false negatives</a>) – and the associated costs in time, effort, and cost of wrongfully obstructing good mail. </p><p>Anti-spam techniques can be broken into four broad categories: those that require actions by individuals, those that can be automated by email administrators, those that can be automated by email senders and those employed by researchers and law enforcement officials. </p>