A few odds and sods of tips

Stop messenger spam
With messenger spam, there are two important things to know. First, they're not always from who they say they're from. Second, you can stop them.

Panes - keep closed for less spam
Why closed preview panes mean less spam.

Are you sending spam?    However that article is slightly incorrect.  Some spammers will also randomly choose many different email addresses in the Reply-To field.  Rather than just a few different email addresses.  

Bugs, Glitches & Stuffups  "helping people beat the latest spyware trends"

Improving the look of your website at search engines.

Use the meta name 'description' on your pages, especially the index page.  This will help improve the description of your website at various search engines.  For example if you searched at google.com for "tony toews" you used to see
Home Page of Tony Toews
Howdy, I'm Tony Toews, a mildly eccentric, computer dweeb. ... Home Page of Tony
Toews. Howdy, I'm Tony Toews, a mildly eccentric, computer geek. ...
www.tonytoews.com/ - 6k - 5 Jan 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Hopefully you should now see the following:
Home Page of Tony Toews

Howdy, I'm Tony Toews, a mildly eccentric, computer alpha geek..
www.tonytoews.com/ - 6k - 5 Jan 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

<meta name="description" content="Welcome to the community website for Vermilion, Alberta.">

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