You should be aware of the CAN-SPAM Act that came into effect in January 2004. The law's main provisions ban false or misleading information in the header and subject lines. You must provide an opt-out method and you must honor unsubscribe requests. If you are sending commercial email it must be identified as an advertisement or solicitation and it must include your actual postal address.Legislation is being reviewed continually and provisions...more
Who is sending out all the spam? Why in the world are they doing it? The answer to 'why' comes down to money. It's about profit. Why else would people send out millions or even billions of spam each day? Go who question is a little more complex.In 2003 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) created the Can-Spam Act. Legitimate businesses are the source of a small portion of spam. They either don't understand or don't follow the rules laid out by the...more
Spam blockers are certainly a much needed tool for anyone who has an email account. It does not matter how little or much that account is used - no one needs to deal with hundreds of emails that were unsolicited and over half filled with empty promises. Whether you check your account daily or monthly, spam blockers make it possible to spend your...more
Spamming Techniques That You should AvoidThere are many ways to spam search engines and trick search engine spider to increase traffic to websites. Some of these popular methods are better known as ‘search engine spamming. Let's know more about these methods in order to gain clarity:Keyword Stuffing:It is commonly known as the...more
Almost all the computer users are very much familiar with the word spam. In fact, we are tired of spam. How to get rid of spam? Before talking about the solutions, let me tell you in short what Spam is. It is all about a set of junk mail that the sender sends to the recipients without their permission. Spams or unsolicited junk e-mails are an unwanted and often offensive derivative of the Internet's success. It also blocks some of the sites of the users. It is also known as Unsolicited bulk E-Mail. It comes in Bulk and it shows as undisclosed recipients. Spams can quickly fill up your email account if no action is taken. To deal with spams, all the email servers have developed various way outs. Gmail separates the spams for the users so that they can get rid of it more quickly. Deleting the spam is very easy but the best thing is to stop them coming. The concept od spam has started growing from the year 1990. Botnets, which is also known as computer virus, used to send about 80% of Spam.Now it is important to know how it comes to our computer and hoe can we prevent it. Spammer collects E-mail address from the cartoons, websites, customer's lists, and viruses which...more
Putting either visible or hidden text on the web page as disguised phrases and key words is another popular way to do content spamming. There are various ways to hide these keywords: within the ALT attributes and "no script" sections, within the HTML...more
Everyday thousands of potential customers are being thrown away, like a tattered old shirt by naive marketers. The offenders of course don't realize what they are doing, but the damage has already been done. The simple fact is, no marketer in their...more
Internet has made communication easy and speedy. But we cannot ignore its malicious by-products like viruses and spam. Our inbox is full of mails from unknown senders who are promising us a fortune by just a few clicks of the mouse. But by opening...more
The World Wide Web is so content-rich that there is no topic regarding which you would not find any information here. Students often refer to the various websites for their project work and reference. Besides being a source of information it is an...more
At an organization the monthly sales were going down for a few months at a stretch. With just a little investigation the administrator found out that the employees of the company were more interested in orkuting and twittering in these social...more
The internet has been a boon to mankind. Just type a few words in your search engine and you will find innumerable websites with immense information. The latest fad of social networking websites has brought people closer to one another; you might...more