The article offers ways on how can companies can avoid spam or unsolicited electronic mail messages. To avoid as much spam as possible, a company must strive to keep its e-mail addresses off the mailing lists compiled by spammers. Additional ways of keeping e-mail addresses off spammer mailing lists include minimizing the number of e-mail addresses posted on the company's web site, avoiding the use of short, easy-to-guess e-mail addresses and instructing employees to guard their addresses.