Spam
Published: 18/08/2008
No one likes spam email - customers, clients, and even business owners cannot always handle the amount of spam that comes from one email address placed in a public space on the web. So if you have a website, you will want to check out these five tips that will help to reduce the spam that gets...
Published: 14/08/2008
There are so many different ways that people can get email addresses these days. All you need to do is find a site that offers email addresses and sign. But have you ever notice that even when you don't share your new address, you can end up with a half a dozen spam emails in your box a few hours...
Published: 12/08/2008
There are so many businesses on the internet that can offer their customers a variety of discounts and special deals after the customer signs up for newsletters at the website, but 90% of these customers never receive these emails. Why? Because spam filters have taken over and left your customers...
Published: 22/07/2008
We all know what it is like when we receive those annoying email marketing mass send outs landing as spam in our inboxes. There are plenty of people who do nothing more than simply delete these right away. So the question that remains is what can you do to limit the number of these spam emails?...
Published: 11/07/2008
Almost a week ago I found out that I couldn't send emails using my desktop software such as (Outlook / Thunderbird). After speaking with my high speed internet provider I was told that they had recently started blocking port 25 -- basically stopping me from sending emails.
So after speaking...
Published: 25/06/2008
Unless you live in a cave --and one without a computer at that-- you're very familiar with the huge time waster that sifting through mountains of email spam can be. And while spam is a huge annoyance for employees and end users everywhere, the real costs for businesses are in time and money and...
Published: 16/06/2008
It's been almost 5 years since the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 went into effect, but don't think the law has faded by the wayside. Although anti-spammers have referred to the law as the YOU CAN-SPAM Act and are quick to point out shortcomings, the law is the law - and it is being enforced.
Anti-spam...
Published: 14/06/2008
Your brave anti-spam software works hard to defend your inbox from all those messages about enlarging... um.... various things. Even more important, your spam buster also helps protect you from less-embarrassing --but more dangerous-- phishing scam emails. But not entirely safe. Just in case a...
Published: 01/04/2008
I was talking to a client recently about why he should add a newsletter opt-in form on his website so that he can capture email addresses.
He said "but Sam I don't like spam".
In hindsight I probably should have worded that a little bit differently when I said capturing an email address....
Published: 26/12/2007
I receive approximately 5,000 emails containing spam each and every day. Well, maybe not that many, but it sure seems like it. Spam is spiraling out of control and shows no signs of stopping. The question is, where does spam come from, and can you do anything about it?
Most of the spam I...
