CAN-SPAM Basics

I. BACKGROUNDThe CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act) establishes requirements for those who send commercial email, spells out penalties for s...Full Article

ANTI-S*P^A#M: Protecting Your Web Sites Email Address(es)

Did you know that there are software programs that viewweb sites and steal email addresses? Its calledharvesting because theyre harvesting your email addressfrom your site. This may be one of the reas...Full Article

Is Your Website Blacklisted?

A blacklist, as the name implies, is a list of people or companies who have met with the disapproval of others. In the online world a blacklist refers to those people who have been marked as responsib...Full Article

Protecting Yourself With A Porn Filter

The harmful affects of pornography use and addiction are well documented by science. As with most things in life, prevention is the most effective way to avoid ever having a problem with pornography.T...Full Article

Your Dolphin E-mail Caught In Spam Tuna Net?

Let me ask a couple of questions:If (potential) customers sends an e-mail to your company, do they want to receive an answer?If you, in return, e-mail your customer, do you expect that your e-mail is ...Full Article

How To Stop Spam (Especially If Youre Already a Victim)

Spam. Those annoying, time-consuming emails that clog your Inbox and ruin your day. You wonder: How did it ever get so bad? While its not possible to completely eliminate spam, there are quite a few t...Full Article

Block Spam with An Easy Behavioral Change

E-mails now have a connection back to their servers. I willleave the technical aspects out of this article. Instead, Iwill walk you through how information from your computer isgetting back to them....Full Article

Blackhole or Fail - Which One Is Better For Your Mail Server?

Very often SPAMMERS take advantage of catch-all email setup on webservers. Every email no matter what the recipients email address is will be caught by the default email account. It is highly recommen...Full Article

Bayesian Spam Filters Explained

In a word Bayesian spam filters are intelligent. Bayesian spam filters are intelligent in so far as theyre capable of comparing two sets of information and acting on the result. This is in direct cont...Full Article

Avoiding the Spam Trap: Get Your Message Delivered!

Your message is not being delivered.If you send emails to your customers, I have some bad news for you. Not all of your emails are making it to your intended recipients. Between ISP spam filters, sp...Full Article

Having a Bad e MALE Day? Email, Spam, Spam and More Spam

You just sat at your desk, opened your email account and what do you get? First there is some anonymous donkey from an anonymous and anything but respectable mortgage lender telling you that they can ...Full Article

Three Faces of SPAM

Like everybody who will ever read this, I get spam in my e-mail. Mine seems to fall into one of three categories. The first is the Nigerian scam about helping some poor, pathetic soul collect megabu...Full Article

Internet Tip of the Week: Information Overload

We receive so much information on the Internet, especially via email, that many times we have difficulty separating the good stuff from the junk. Most of us put unsolicited email (spam) in the junk ca...Full Article

Internet Tip of the Week: Outsourcing

Its no secret that the US economy has slowed down, and many jobs have been outsourced overseas. Thousands of companies are still and are being forced to cut costs, decrease benefits, and even lay off ...Full Article

Internet Tip of the Week: Cease and Desist

While we all admit that unsolicited commercial email is a real pain, I sometimes wonder if the anti-spam zealots are going too far. Last week I was in Costa Rica, and the only practical way to communi...Full Article

Is Email Dying?

2004 was really a year when the whole subject of email and spam has been at the forefront of the minds of internet marketers.The anti Spam legislation has had more than the desired effect. I think eve...Full Article

Dont Give the Spammers Your Address From Your Page

Spammers get email addresses from web pages using programs called spiders which tour the internet capturing letter strings with the @ character in it.Signing up for extra information at some sites and...Full Article

The Vanishing Mail

Am I Just Being Paranoid Or Are The Robots Out To Get Me?It all started in the early part of the twenty-first century.In the early days of email we were thrilled with its speed and reliability, far su...Full Article

Avoid, Shun, Thwart, Prevent, and then Filter Spam

Email is rapidly becoming the standard means of communication among businesses, associates, and even friends. While many people have now been using the internet and email for years, there are thousand...Full Article

5 Zero-Cost Spam Prevention Tools For All Situations!

Anyone who uses email knows what Spam is!Its annoying and time consuming to wade through volumes offraud, con and obscene emails to filter out the really importantones. And I am sure you are affected ...Full Article