• Communication Tollbooths : Conquering Unwelcome Ads

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    If you're like me, you hate getting telemarketing phone calls. Even if they doesn't interrupt your dinner, they are just wasting our time because those marketers are running a blanket campaign. They are perfectly willing to have their automated redialer make a hundred indiscriminate calls every twenty minutes.Read more…
  • From Russia with Love - 2006

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    Are you a James Bond movies fan? If not I need to add some a few more words. “From Russia with Love ” is one of the popular Bond movies starring Sean Connery.Read more…
  • How Do Anti Spam Solutions Work?

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    We have all suffered from these annoying dangerous spam emails. Most of us still do. There are excellent anti spam solutions in the market, there is no reason to tolerate this no more.Read more…
  • Seven Tips for Securing Your Organization's Network from Spam and Email Viruses

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    Providing security against email related threats has become a burden for most IT professionals in 2006. According to a recent study by Postini, spam and email viruses now make up to 80% of all emails sent out as compared to 50% in 2000. As a result, IT professionals now face a tougher challenge in providing network security for this amount of spam.Read more…
  • How to Reduce Spam in Your Inbox and Enhance Your Email Security

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    Spam is the internet’s equivalent of junk mail. Spam is defined as an e-mail message sent to people without their consent or permission. Addresses of recipients are often harvested from Usenet postings or web pages, obtained from databases, or simply guessed by using common names and domains.Read more…
  • Way to Block Spam - Bayesian Filter to Fight Back Spammers

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    The most prolific and path breaking innovation of last century had been the developments in the communication field. It literally changed the business working, product marketing, support services and most importantly, the advertisement campaigns.But just like all goods things comes with a price, so was the communication.Read more…
  • Franchised Outlets Prohibitions Against SPAM, Blast Faxing and Telemarketing

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    In the past few years we have seen new legislation against SPAM, fax marketing and telemarketing. The franchisor must ensure that the integrity of the franchise system, the image and the standing in the community, as well as the brand-name are protected. This is why these new forms of marketing must be prohibited and outlined as such in the confidential operations manual.Read more…
  • You Have Got Junk Mail Still!

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    Well what happen to the War in Spam, it has been two years and the Federal Trade Commission is over budget, asking the United States Congress for more and still no end in site to all this SPAM. The casualties in the War in SPAM may soon reach some 2500% increase since it started. And there are now Spammer insurgents from neighboring nation states supporting these folks.Read more…
  • Fight the Hunters - Get a Shield Against Spam

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    In their residential laboratories they cook industrial amounts of spam following special spam recipes and use these dangerous weapons to waste your days and living powers!Meet it face to face: spam - unsolicited, unwanted, mass broadcast of advertisements to newsgroups and email addresses. Often used by con artists, crooks and pornographers.Read more…
  • The Threat of Spam and Basic Preventative Measures

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    Everyone who uses the internet has more than likely been targets of spam at one time or another. At first they are easy to dismiss for internet experienced persons, however for the inexperienced user of the internet, the messages contained can sometimes be intimidating and in some instances lead to trouble (I will come onto a personal example later).Spam can take several forms; email and search engine spam are just two, but the one we will concentrate on in this article, and also the one you will, and have most likely encountered, is via email.Read more…
  • Are AOL and Yahoo Rabid Extortionists or Just Plain Stupid?

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    Today I met a client for lunch. He runs a ticketing agency in Vienna and complained about confirmation emails not getting through to customers with an AOL or Yahoo email account.In an article he recently stumbled upon, it referes to: "AOL and Yahoo are planning to begin charging what amounts to postage for those sending multiple email messages to their subscribers.Read more…
  • Spammers, Spyware, and International Enforcement Cooperation

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    Due to the utter and complete failure of the Federal Trade Commission to curb SPAM after being chosen to enforce the CAN SPAM Act the FTC has determined it needs help. The FTC therefore put forth initiatives to work with other nations in international cooperation. Originally this made sense, but upon further review it appears to me to be just another FTC scam in my opinion to spend taxpayer’s money so FTC employees can jet set around the world visiting other nations.Read more…
  • Unsolicited Commercial Email, SPAM and the FTC

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    Most recently the Federal Trade Commission has put forth their requests for further budget funding for fiscal year 2007 and in this report to Congress for more taxpayer’s monies the FTC cited their efforts to curb SPAM. Yet many critics of the agency who have called it everything from incompetent to the Blob of Bureaucracy believe that the FTC has done little since the CAN SPAM Act to enforce this unsolicited commercial email. Here is what the FTC told the US Congress:SPAM.Read more…
  • Federal Trade Commission Budget FY 2007

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    The Federal Trade Commission has requested some 223 Million Dollars in their FY 2007 budget despite their piss poor previous performance to protect the public. Luckily the President of the United States did not give them all that money, but he did provide them with sufficient monies to carry on. What some may not realize is that the Federal Trade Commission has not done so well in curbing crime, preventing monopolies or helping the consumer in fact if you look closely at their endeavors from 1999 to the present you can see they have actually hurt consumers in my opinion, helped criminals and attacked businesses which would have provided more choice to consumers, lower prices and more competition in the market place.Read more…
  • Spam Email and the Flu, Is There a Cure?

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    It seems more and more these days, I am seeing increased similarities with spam and the flu. With Yahoo and AOL in the news lately about a possible pay to email to avoid spam, this brought be to think about the flu and spam correlation.If you cannot beat it, or at least stop it completely at this time, why not try to make money off of it (that is unless there's a permanent solution against it).Read more…
  • Strategies To Fight Email Spam

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    If you are a business owner and you rely on email, spam is going to be a major concern. How you address it can make a big difference in employee efficiency. Email spam has been a nuisance and has gotten even worse over the last several years.Read more…
  • How a Server Spam Filter Saves Time, Money and Downtime

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    A server spam filter is a software application that scans incoming email messages, identifies SPAM based on preset configurations and isolates the unsolicited email so that it never reaches the email inboxes of the personal computers in the computer network.SPAM is the slang term that is commonly used to describe unwanted, unsolicited commercial email or junk email. It is not an acronym so it doesn't actually "stand for" anything.Read more…
  • Simple Steps to Defeating Spam

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    GMail SPAM filter is fighting a losing battle. I am doing some ANTI-SPAM testing. For the past 4 months I have been very public with my Gmail email address, signing up for newsletters, using it on forms, and sharing it publicly on forums, blogs, and discussion boards.Read more…
  • Spam - How To Keep Spam Out Of Your Inbox

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    From the minute users log onto their e-mail system, they encounter a deluge of unwanted e-mail that flows into their mailboxes all hours of the day and night. The billions of unwanted email messages circulating across the Internet disrupt email delivery, clog up computer systems, reduce productivity, waste time, raise the cost of Internet access fees, irritate users and erode their confidence in using email. Many spam messages also contain material that is offensive or fraudulent, and spam is sometimes used to spread computer viruses.Read more…
  • Digging into Spam and Filtering Services

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    If you talk to anyone who uses email, spam is something that is frequently on there mind. How often is it that you open your inbox checking for an email from your mom, and you end up with emails with subjective titles involving animals, and foreign objects.There are ways to fight back against Spam, and one of the most popular is through the use of a spam filtering service.Read more…

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