Categories
- Arts & Entertainment
- Business
- Communications
- Computers
- Culture & Society
- Disease & Illness
- Fashion
- Finance
- Food & Beverage
- Health & Fitness
- Hobbies
- Home & Family
- Home Based Business
- Internet Business
- Adsense
- Affiliate Programs
- Affiliate Revenue
- Auctions
- Audio Streaming
- Autoresponders
- Banner Advertising
- Blogging
- Click Bank
- Directories
- Domain Names
- Ecommerce
- Email Marketing
- Ezine Publishing
- Forums
- Internet Marketing
- Link Popularity
- List Building
- Podcasting
- PPC Advertising
- RSS
- Security
- SEO
- Site Promotion
- Spam Blocker
- Technologies
- Traffic Building
- Tutorials
- Video
- Video Streaming
- Viral Marketing
- Web Design
- Web Development
- Web Hosting
- Webmasters
- Legal
- Pets & Animals
- Politics
- Product Reviews
- Recreation & Sports
- Reference & Education
- Religion
- Self Improvement
- Shopping
- Travel & Leisure
- Vehicles
- Writing & Speaking
Information
Could This Be The End of Sp^am?
Submitted: 2007-01-17 13:18:21
Print this article | Tell a friend | For publisher |
The war on sp^am has so far been waged on two fronts: legislation to make sp^am illegal and filters that prevent sp^am reaching its destination.
But neither approach has worked.
Even if US anti-sp^am laws succeeded, they would not stop sp^am that originates outside the US.
As for sp^am filters, the sp^ammers are constantly devising new ways to defeat them. The people who are really being affected by the filters are web marketers with legitimate optin lists - how many of your subscribers are receiving your newsletter?
But now, two researchers at IBM - Scott Fahlman and Mark Wegman - have come up with a completely different approach.
The idea is very simple.
Software located between your email client and your server would intercept all incoming email. The software would contain a 'white list' of email addresses that you want to receive email from.
Any incoming email that is not recognized by your 'white list' would be bounced back to the sender with a message directing the sender to a website where they could purchase a 'charity stamp' for a small fee - between 5 and 25 cents.
The proceeds would go to charity. The charity stamp would be a 10-digit code that allows the email to pass through the software to your email client.
This would kill sp^am almost overnight.
Why?
Because sp^ammers have an extremely low conversion rate - as little as one sale for every 10,000 emails. But that doesn't worry them, because they send millions of emails at a time - and it costs them nothing. Now multiply 2 million emails by 5 cents per email - Joe Sp^am is out of business!
The flood of sp^am that is now choking up the Internet only proves what economists have long been saying - any resource that is free and unregulated becomes exploited to the point where no one can use it anymore.
------------------------------------------------------------
Michael Southon has been writing for the Internet for over 3
years. He has shown hundreds of webmasters how to use this
simple technique to build a successful online business. Click
here to find out more: http://ezine-writer.com/
------------------------------------------------------------
Article source: Expert Articles
Most Recent Articles in Email Marketing category
- List Building Is Critical To Your Online Success and Your Abillity to Make Money - By: Melvin Richardson
Your list is the very foundation upon which your internet business sits. It's the list that determines how much money you will make. - Email marketing solution: get ahead in competition - By: Garry Edgell
Promotion through Internet is the latest advertising trend. Nowadays Email marketing solution has become very popular for this. - How to Fabricate a Income Oriented List? - By: Seema Sharma
List building is vital in building a sustainable internet marketing business, one which will carry on reaping rewards for many years. However, it's an area of online marketing which many fail to implement and those that do. - Know the best 6 Sublime Tips for Email List Building - By: Tek Chand
One of the oldest methods in the world of selling products or services has been the venerable mailing list. From old time "direct mail" letters to modern email messages, the "LIST" has almost reached mythical proportions in marketing circles. - Email marketing solutions can make email marketing successful - By: Garry Edgell
The given below article explains how email marketing solutions can make email marketing business a success. - Email Marketing Services: One of The Most Effective Marketing Services Of All - By: Garry Edgell
To make email marketing services effective and traffic pulling, focus of building opt-in list of customers and their perspectives. - Email Marketing Solutions: Post-Modern Ad Tool - By: Garry Edgell
There are various ways of sales promotion and online medium has invented some more novel ways. For example Email marketing solutions. - Email Marketing services: make direct impact on customers - By: Garry Edgell
Emails marketing services can make a difference to your business plans. They can increase your customer base and help create healthy relations with them. - Joint Venture-Building List Worldwide - By: naresh sharma
Internet marketers are advertising innovators as they simply throw out all of the written-in-stone advertising policies of brick and mortar advertisers and devised new and effective ways to reach their potential customers. - You must do things when build your Mailing list! - By: Jitender Kohli
More and more people are starting their own business from home online. Marketing techniques change quickly and those who have been online for some time know this and adapt their business accordingly.