| 271 | Keep Spam Mail Away From You Preview: In the last couple of years, spam mail has become perhaps the most terrible headache of email users on the internet. Depending on how popular your mail service provider is and how old your email account is, you may be receiving every day ten to several hundred unwanted emails about advertisements, propaganda, news and a bunch of other topics that ... (more) Published By: Deniz Akay Submitted: 26 January,2005 |
| 272 | How to Send Emails that Get Opened Preview: Recently, there has been a lot of discussion about the (impending) death of email. From what you read on forum boards and newsletters from well-known internet marketers, email marketing is dead. Too many ISPs are taking it upon themselves to limit the number of emails you can send at one time, or are blocking your emails from your subscribers inbo... (more) Published By: Jeremy Hoover Submitted: 28 January,2005 |
| 273 | What Kind of E-mail are You? Preview: Trouble is the occasional threatening e-mail. Heart aches are e-mails that attack. They throw out accusations and condemnation (often using fowl language), leaving your spirit in disarray. Cruel e-mails are hoaxes that call upon fear or pull at your heart strings. Rude e-mails suppose you to appreciate suggestive pictures or language. ... (more) Published By: Joyce C. Lock Submitted: 30 January,2005 |
| 274 | Protect Your Email Address Preview: Spam only occurs when the spammer is able to get your email address. They have a variety of methods for doing this, some legal and some not. Either way, the result is the same. You have become a spam victim. The single most important action that you can take to prevent spam from occurring is to keep your email address off of those lists. T... (more) Published By: Debbie Hamstead Submitted: 30 January,2005 |
| 275 | Bayesian Filters Preview: A common problem with filters is the fact that they are a one-size-fits all solution to SPAM. The rules are concrete and only change based on input from updates from the Anti-spam service. SPAM changes too quickly to make that method effective. Additionally, what is SPAM to you may not be to someone else. That is where Bayesian filters come ... (more) Published By: Debbie Hamstead Submitted: 30 January,2005 |
| 276 | Email Deliverability Tips Preview: Ensuring requested opt-in email is delivered to subscriber inboxes is an increasingly difficult battle in the age of spam filtering. Open and click thru response rates can be dramatically affected by as much as 20-30% due to incorrect spam filter classification. - Permission Confirming that the people who ask for your information have actually ... (more) Published By: Tom Kulzer Submitted: 02 February,2005 |
| 277 | Block Spam with An Easy Behavioral Change Preview: By Catherine Franz E-mails now have a connection back to their servers. I will leave the technical aspects out of this article. Instead, I will walk you through how information from your computer is getting back to them. You have probably experienced this already, an e-mail lands in your box with many symbols in the subject line created with th... (more) Published By: Catherine Franz Submitted: 04 February,2005 |
| 278 | Your Reputation Precedes You Preview: A Look at the Past, Present and Future of Email Reputation Systems “Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.” --Spoken by Cassio, in Shakespeare’s Othello (circa 1602) Though written over four centuries ago, the sentiment behind these words still... (more) Published By: CipherTrust Submitted: 09 February,2005 |
| 279 | Maximizing E-mail Security ROI - Part IV – The Digital Monsters under Your Bed: E-Mail Intruders Preview: This is the last of a five-part series on Maximizing Email Security ROI. Remember your kid fears? As soon as the lights went out, the monsters under your bed began plotting ways to get you. Somehow, though, you always managed to outsmart them and make it through the night. Then one night you grew up, and the monsters went away for good. We... (more) Published By: CipherTrust Submitted: 11 February,2005 |
| 280 | Maximizing E-mail Security ROI - Part V – A New Twist to an Old Problem: Email Encryption Preview: This is the last of a five-part series on Maximizing Email Security ROI. Throughout the ages, people have encrypted communications to suit their information security needs. In the 1st century B.C., Julius Caesar didn’t trust the couriers who carried his messages to trusted acquaintances. So, he replaced every A with a D, every B with an E,... (more) Published By: CipherTrust Submitted: 11 February,2005 |
| 281 | Is your E-mail Protected? Preview: Recent history demonstrates that when e-mails wind up in third-party hands, the results range from mild embarrassment to theft of proprietary information and multi-billion dollar lawsuits (think Merrill Lynch). But prying eyes won’t be smiling for long, thanks to the many new Web-based systems that let subscribers track and control their e-mail – ... (more) Published By: Anthony Ellis Submitted: 16 February,2005 |
| 282 | How Autoresponders Boost Sales by up to 400% Preview: How Autoresponders Boost Sales by up to 400% Imagine going to bed and waking up in the morning to find that you made sales while you slept - all because of your autoresponder! What exactly is an autoresponder? An autoresponder is an automated email program that responds to an incoming email with a message written by you. The message can be writt... (more) Published By: John Lynch Submitted: 16 February,2005 |
| 283 | Hall of Shame - The Bad Boys of UCE Preview: The majority of Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), or “spam” is sent by a relatively small group of dedicated professional spammers. The Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) indicates that 80% of all spam comes from just 200 known spam operations. This data is in line with research completed by CipherTrust research scientists, which indicat... (more) Published By: CipherTrust Submitted: 22 February,2005 |
| 284 | The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs Preview: Ever wondered what it would be like to have a goose that lays golden eggs? Well, if you thought such stuff happens only in fairy tales, think again! Now before you get carried away in your own curious thoughts, let me tell you that the magical goose I'm talking about is your list of subscribers or your contact list... That's right, a list of tar... (more) Published By: Mustafa K. Submitted: 04 March,2005 |
| 285 | Will The Real Spammer Please Stand Up! Preview: If you have been using opt-in email marketing for sometime, I'm sure you might have got accused of spam at some point, even after doing everything right. Yes, I'm talking about people who actually agreed to receive your email, blaming you for sending unsolicited mail. According to me it's not their fault, as nowadays it's very easy to mistake a... (more) Published By: Mustafa K. Submitted: 05 March,2005 |
| 286 | 7 Ways Email Can End Your Business Relationships Before They Start Preview: 7 Ways Email Can End Your Business Relationships Before They Start Author: Dina Giolitto Too often, people forget they're anonymous in the internet world. Your friends and colleagues might know you as being a tireless worker, a great friend and loving parent, but I don't know that. To me, you're just a font. You're a font in an email, or in a f... (more) Published By: Dina Giolitto Submitted: 05 March,2005 |
| 287 | Intellectual Property Theft Has Never Been Easier - Is your enterprise protected? Preview: Intellectual property (IP) is at the core of any business. Confidential manufacturing processes, financial information, customer lists, digital source code, marketing strategies, research data or any other compilation of information used to obtain competitive advantage could be deadly to your enterprise if it ends up in the wrong hands. Email-B... (more) Published By: CipherTrust Submitted: 15 March,2005 |
| 288 | The Anti Spam Challenge – Minimizing False Positives Preview: 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 t... (more) Published By: CipherTrust Submitted: 15 March,2005 |
| 289 | 2005: An Email Compliance Odyssey - Get your enterprise ready to comply with multiple federal information privacy laws Preview: “The two overarching themes for compliance management in 2005 will be the adoption of best practices and the accelerated focus on and use of IT.” --Gartner Research Federal legislation targeting the dissemination of private information has forced businesses in every industry to rethink how they communicate. The three primary regulations, the He... (more) Published By: CipherTrust Submitted: 15 March,2005 |
| 290 | 6 Strong Reasons Why RSS Beats Email Marketing Preview: A brand new marketing tool predicted to replace email is currently sweeping the World Wide Web like a storm. The Internet is experiencing the so-called “orange” revolution and there’s no stopping to it. The online marketing world is rigorously seen chanting a 3-letter mantra, R-S-S. Yes, RSS is here and it’s got substance, material, style, sop... (more) Published By: Mustafa Khundmiri Submitted: 17 March,2005 |