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Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker Eight Quick Tips For Stopping SPAM If you are buried in SPAM then you're not alone. It's been suggested that as much as 50% to 75% of the e-mail traffic on any given day is SPAM. Reading through SPAM is a waste of your time and it subjects you to potential viruses, trojan horses, and sexual material which can be quite offensive. Aug 23, 2005, 05:56 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker 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 megabucks, supposedly from someone who has died and left a fortune. I’m not sure what is worse: that there are people desperate enough to believe those messages, or that there are people despicable enough to prey on the desperate. The net result is the despicable con the desperate into sending money which the desperate will never see again. Aug 23, 2005, 05:52 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker The Great Spam Scam: Five Strategies To Stop Brand and Revenue Robbery Marketers usually think of anti-spam tactics as 'how to prevent' readers from perceiving their e-communications as spam. There is another, more sinister, consequence that may affect you. Spam is not just an inconvenience. For legitimate businesses, it steals productivity, erode your brand, and rob you of revenue. Aug 23, 2005, 05:43 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker Winning the War On Spam For years I didn't worry much about spam. But lately it's got out of control. Over half of my email is now spam, and it was growing by the week - until I took action. This article shows you some strategies for winning the war on spam. Aug 23, 2005, 05:33 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker How to Avoid Spam Complaints in Your Emails Spam filters are responsible for deleting a high percentage of legitimate business emails from people who have no wish to spam. Here are some tips to avoid spam complaints in your emails or ezine. Aug 23, 2005, 05:30 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker Protecting Your Business From Spam Even being as careful as possible with my email address, I still used to receive more than 100 email messages a day, which is no exaggeration. Only about 10% of those emails were from people that I knew and the rest of the messages were unwanted email…”spam”. And I’m sure you can relate to my frustration. It is estimated that over seventy-six billion unwanted email messages were delivered in 2003, costing companies more than $10 billion each year. Aug 23, 2005, 05:27 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker How Can I Stop Getting Spam? Are you getting too much spam? We all are, but if you're a webmaster the word spam takes on a whole new meaning. It’s not uncommon for the luckiest of email users to receive a dozen or so spam messages each day, while those of us who aren’t so fortunate receive hundreds. The casual home user tends to be more fortunate, so this article is devoted to those of us with one or more website because webmasters are getting hit by spam … and hit hard. Aug 23, 2005, 05:24 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker 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 means to receive eZines from online forums and information sites. In theory any one of these sources could share your email address with a spammer (perhaps by listing it on a public site) and before you know it your email box is full of emails you don't want and can't stop... note, we do not do this, your address is safe with us. Aug 23, 2005, 05:22 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker Learn Simple Strategies That Will Stop Spammers From Bombarding Your Inbox! Spam filter is the solution that most people resort when they try to steam the flood of junk mails and spam. However, there is a problem! First: Some spam will still get through. Second: Some legitimate mails will be stopped as spam. Aug 23, 2005, 05:20 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker 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. Aug 23, 2005, 05:18 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker Fight Spam and Fortify Your Web Site with RSS RSS is the answer to the Spam epidemic of the past. Spam, any mass distribution of material across the Internet, can cause systems to back up and crash with unwanted and unsolicited material. Some of this material may be offensive to the people who visit your website and drive away potential viewers or customers. Aug 23, 2005, 05:16 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker 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 as “false positives.” Aug 23, 2005, 05:12 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker Evict the Spammers from Your Inbox Block Spam and Other Email Threats From Entering Your Gateway Spam, commonly defined as unsolicited commercial email, is a powerful advertising channel for many products and services. As a result, spamming has become a profitable business, driven by the low cost of sending email compared to other direct marketing techniques. The high return on investment for spammers has resulted in an overwhelming volume of unwanted messages in personal and business email boxes. Aug 23, 2005, 05:06 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker What to Do to Avoid Getting Banned How would you feel if you found a link on the web that was interesting to you but when you click the link it takes you to a page that is total rubbish? You are not only disappointed but it also wastes your time. Unfortunately, this is often true in many cases. To get a good ranking, often web page designers use "spamdexing". Aug 23, 2005, 05:04 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker How You Can Avoid The New Dangers Of Spam Until recently, spam has been an annoyance, a definite load on your email system and network, a waste of productive time and money, but we are about to find that the cost could get much higher. Spam blockers are now becoming a necessity rather than an optional email utility, the reason is that spam is becoming much more dangerous. Aug 23, 2005, 05:02 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker A Practical Approach to Eliminate Spam Spam is out of control! I guess that would be the understatement of the year. Like any other annoying fact of life, you let it drive you crazy or you deal with it. Aug 23, 2005, 04:59 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker How To Stop Unwanted Email Spam You can stop unwanted email spam, you can choose to reduce spam email or you can do nothing and continue to be annoyed. Those are your only choices because spam email is not likely to go away. Every single one of us would love to stop unwanted emails but only a very small percentage of people do anything except complain about spam. Aug 23, 2005, 04:56 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker The Trouble With Spam Is.... Each day we all face the same challenge. Spam. It doesn't matter if you're a home computer user or the head of IT for a multinational limiting or totally preventing the distribution of junk email to your computer(s) is now a daily chore. Aug 23, 2005, 04:53 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker Stop Spam! New Spam Blockers News last week that Internet service provider Verizon settled its lawsuit against Detroit-based spam king Al Ralsky was of little comfort. Ralsky agreed to pay a fine and stop spamming Verizon customers, but he still has plenty of other targets. And there are still hundreds of other spammers who have never visited a courtroom and are all too eager to fill our inboxes with business propositions from deposed Nigerian dictators. Aug 23, 2005, 04:50 Business Articles : Online Business : Spam Blocker The Definition of Spam Spam can bring down your website faster than a speeding bullet, but what is spam? Originally, spam referred to unwanted emails. We all hate the tons of email we receive day after day trying to get us to buy that or click this. I can't go a day without someone trying to steal my personal information so they can get into my bank account. Aug 23, 2005, 04:49 More Headlines