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Is There A National Do Not Spam List?

You may have already received a do not spam list email, seen a web site or even heard a radio advertisement that promises to reduce spam email just by submitting your email address.
Since the federal “Do Not Call List” became law in 2003, it seems logical that a do not spam list exists also. But [...]

A War on SPAM: Attacking The Evil

As most small, medium and large businesses in this country have seen the SPAM Emails have hurt our productivity and caused excessive costs.
Here are a few very interesting web links on this issue and the FTC report on SPAM to Congress.
http://www.ftc.gov/reports/dneregistry/report.pdf
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/32739.html
http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_i…64552&area=news
It is true that a DO NOT SPAM list is not going to fly, it [...]

The War on Spam: Google Fights Back

Google is engaged in a war. It is a war on spam. With new strategies and filters ready to put into place, the search engine is adding new firepower to its arsenal almost daily. Webmasters and SEO Consultants alike are terrified; fearing what the future holds for them. But for those [...]

Block Ads, Defeat Pop-Ups, and STOP Page Hijacking

You’re not alone!
Who hasn’t surfed the web looking for information only tohave their session interrupted by those annoying pop-upwindows displaying everything from banner ads to newslettersign-up’s?
Though pop-up windows and other methods of influencing auser’s online experiences originally had positiveintentions, they now seem only to annoy and manipulateusers at every turn.
For anyone who ever felt extremely [...]

Spammer in the Slammer: Jeremy Jaynes Sentenced to Nine Years

Will other spammers take heed? Don’t count on it.
Jeremy Jaynes was on top of the world. By age 28, he owned a million-dollar home, a high-class restaurant, a chain of gyms and countless other toys. Yet those were only the spoils of his main line of business, which was swindling innocent people out of their [...]

The Anti Spam Challenge ? Minimizing False Positives

Email is the quintessential business communication tool, so when it doesn’t work like it’s supposed to, business suffers. Anti spam software is designed to protect your inbox from unwanted messages, but unless your system is properly trained even the best software misses the mark and flags legitimate messages as spam. These messages are referred to [...]

How To Stop Spam

I imagine you have seen, heard about, or already know what spam is. But just in case you don’t, it is unsolicited and unwanted emails that arrive in your email inbox from a person or company that you don’t know.
What you might not know, however, is that now there is a law in the [...]

The 4 Ws of Junk E-mail

Junk e-mail or spam has become the scourge of the modern computer world. It eats bandwidth. Spam is like a disease. It doesn’t care about age, religion, wealth. It doesn’t discriminate. Junk e-mail affects us all.
There are 4 keys to the junk mail question ? Who, What, Where and Why.
Who they are
The typical profile of [...]

Kill The Messenger (Service)

You are familiar with the software applications that you run on your computer, but you may not be familiar with the dozens of programs running in the background on your computer. These programs, called “services” handle tasks like event logging, spooling files to the printer, and networking. One of these services, the Messenger Service, can [...]

Dealing With SPAM – An E-mail Address Strategy

With SPAM being such a problem it might seem the right thing to do is never give anyone your email address. As a strategy that’s not bad but it misses one rather important point; the purpose of having an email address is to be able to exchange emails, both with friends and also as a [...]