Avoiding the Spam Trap: Get Your Message Delivered!

Between ISP spam filters, spam-blocking email servers, spam-killing email software, and email content filtering everywhere in between, the chances are high that your messages just aren't making it past all of these roadblocks. For now, it's up to publishers to sell readers on the RSS concept, and explain how it alleviates the pain of spam. Even if automated spam filters don't destroy your message, as in-boxes fill up with more and more garbage, it's becoming common for people to simply overlook wanted mail and inadvertently delete it. And if that wasn't bad enough, the CAN-SPAM Act suggests a bounty of 20% or more of fines collected go to the people who turn in spammers. When the new federal law dubbed The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing) was passed in December, many were startled and confused by the apparent legalization of spam.

The War on Spam: Google Fights Back

While this may seem like a penalty to new website owners, especially if they are unaware of the new filters or how they work and why, it is Google's way of fighting spam. While spammers are filtered out, some legitimate websites can be annihilated as well, due to inadequate SEO, mistakes in their pages (like broken links), or just simple ignorance to the way search engines work. Nearly three trillion spam messages are sent each year - 13 times the total snail mail delivered by the U. Spam accounted for at least one in four email messages a business received in 2002. The SpamHaus Project is a nonprofit organization that posts information about the groups behind the majority of unsolicited e-mail, and maintains a black hole list of domains from which spammers operate.

Corporate Email Policies Lower Unnecessary Legal and Security Risks

Anti-spam and anti-phishing technology to prevent malicious code from entering a machine and to prevent private information from being provided to unauthorized parties. A Gartner Group study held under 13,000 email users found that 90 percent receive spam at least once a week, and almost 50 percent get spammed more than 6 times a week. Spam and personal abuse of email can also cause a corporation's email system to waste valuable bandwidth resources. In addition to personal emails, unwanted spam messages are a significant time waster. Adopting an anti-spam system alone has not proven effective to stop spam.