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Furthermore, the Department of Justice (DOJ) works actively to shutdown or fine offending web sites or emailers by enforcing this relatively new anti-spam law. 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. Finally, these ezines are kept as concise as possible out of respect for your busy lifestyle. Dollarsforever ezine is designed to increase your financial literacy with respect to earning, saving, and investing your hard-earned money. It is my hope that you will enjoy and use the practical information contained in each month's ezine.
In the last three months alone I have had the privacy of my personal computer invaded in so many ways I am starting to feel like it is public property instead of my own property. Since I have my own server, one of my e-mail addresses is not related to any of the big name e-mail sites like Yahoo, Hotmail or America Online. Senate passed legislation last week that would increase penalties for spammers on a national level and would start a do-not-spam list. Although spamming is only one of the many invasions of privacy on my computer and although this new legislation has been too long in coming, I have to admit I'm quite relieved to see help is on the way. Gray Davis recently signed a bill that made a tough stand on spamming with fines from $1,000 per e-mail and up to $1 million per mass-mailing incident.
Who will want to approve an email address that sends nothing but ads when the expectation was, originally, useful content. Once most marketers legitimately get hold of your email address, they start sending far too many advertising only emails. I have 3 websites with different email addresses on, which can presumably be harvested for spam email lists. In most cases, adding to the address book or approved list will do just that. Some recent figures suggest a significant proportion of valid emails are not reaching their destination.
Of course, email newsletters that have been subscribed to are wanted and would not be spam. Anything that is not asked for by the visitor, like a pop-up or email should definitely be classified as spam. Obviously, letters from Nigeria, fake paypal emails, and the host of other either crooked or just plain annoying emails can clearly be defined as spam. Currently, from other webmaster articles and from what I've seen personally, if your link text is the same everywhere then Google will not allow you those keywords. We all hate the tons of email we receive day after day trying to get us to buy that or click this.
Do not put your personal email address down for every mailing list or website that asks for it. Only give your email address out to people you know and trust. Do everything you can to keep those emails from ever reaching your inbox. If you have allowed your children to have their own email accounts, filtering spam is the best way to ensure inappropriate images never become accessible to them through email. Many free email services exist now - set up a free account with one of them and use that to sign up for mailing lists.
There are other scripts that hide your email address from the robots, but not your site visitors. Many of them crawl your entire site, following every link, gathering email addresses from your guestbook, your message boards, databases, and everywhere else they can get to. They put your email addresses on CDRom and sell them- as opt-in lists. You've seen them, 20,000 targeted email addresses for only $29. What you didn't know was that it was YOUR email address they were selling.
Richter claimed his company made $15 million a year sending more than 15 million email messages per day. In the meantime, the best defense against spam is a comprehensive gateway solution that will guard against all manner of email threats, especially spammers like Scott Richter. He's also been accused of using spam to extract personal information from unsuspecting recipients. He is Chief Technology Officer at CipherTrust, the industry's largest provider of enterprise email security. The company's flagship product, IronMail provides a best of breed enterprise anti spam solution designed to stop spam, phishing attacks and other email-based threats.
While RSS may not be an immediate replacement for the email newsletter, it will become a powerful choice in corporate and personal communication in the very near future. They can block incoming bulk email simply on the basis of a single complaint. The law doesn't burden ISPs to discriminate whether the email was permission-based or unsolicited. The CAN-SPAM law only restricts the legality and processes involved in sending Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE. Following the Red Queen Principle, as spammers continue to find a means to push out spam -- ISPs, hosts, and email packages will continue to improve their defenses, as well, blocking more mail than ever before.
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