Archive for the 'Spam' Category
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 [...]
Tags : spam, email, junk mail, spam filter, junkmail filter, spammers, email only hosting
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 [...]
Tags : spam, email, junk mail, spam filter, junkmail filter, spammers
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 with the tech support staff they [...]
Tags : blocking my email, blocking your email, email, port 25, smtp
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 [...]
Tags : anti spam, anti spam filter, anti spam filtering, server anti spam, exchange anti spam,
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 organizations [...]
Tags : web legal, internet law, spam law, canspam, legal website, website law, spam compliance
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. What [...]
Tags : legitimate spam, permission based email marketing, email marketing
We’ve all had this experience: You login to your email account, excited to read messages from friends, relatives, co-workers, or your girlfriend perhaps. You view the link to your inbox, and it says you have five messages. Fervently, you open your inbox, your heart is racing, you sit up in your chair [...]
Tags : spam, unwanted email
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 receive in [...]
Tags : spam
In a world where you can do virtually everything online, one has to wonder where all the information is going, and how it is being protected. High speed Internet access and devices like Blackberry’s give us constant access to the Internet, and therefore, the ability to exchange information via the World Wide Web. [...]
Tags : spam, phishing, pharming, nigeria, internet security, online
Anybody that has the ugly chore of going through the e-mail in basket will see these little gems and should recognize them for what they are worth - garbage. Yet, these scam messages seem to be increasing in number and sophistication. A few of them are very enticing.
Most of these messages [...]
Tags : spam, scams, lottery-scams, Nigerian-419-scams, inheritance-
