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Has Spam Taken Over Your Inbox?

It amazes me how much spam our company gets. With hundreds of Viagra like ads on both our emails, blogs, as well as other ads, we in the tech community are inundated with marketer’s desire to make a dollar, wasting a companies time, resources and bandwidth. While I appreciate the entrepreneurial spirit, companies do not really care about the libido of their employees, if they use an e.d. enhancing drug, and do not feel this is an adequate use of their company networks, computers or equipment.

While the spam law is clear to anyone reading it, spammers are relentless regarding their emailed advertisment. The law clearly states:

The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act requires unsolicited commercial e-mail messages to be labeled (though not by a standard method) and to include opt-out instructions and the sender’s physical address. It prohibits the use of deceptive subject lines and false headers in such messages. The FTC is authorized (but not required) to establish a “do-not-email” registry. State laws that require labels on unsolicited commercial e-mail or prohibit such messages entirely are pre-empted, although provisions merely addressing falsity and deception would remain in place. The CAN-SPAM Act took effect on January 1, 2004

What can be done?

Spammers have gotten very creative, using the “opt-out” to verify that your email address is a valid address, and then while removing your email from their spam list, selling your now confirmed address to countless other spammers.

In an effort to cut back on the quantity of spam and unsolicited email, I tried several spam filters, but found that the ‘filter’ was cutting out communication and deleting my email communications from my clients. I then tried a company called Spam Arrest located at www.spamarrest.com

Spam arrest uses a white list philosophy. It never deletes the email, but puts unsolicited email into an unverified cue that allows me to scan, open and read if I desire, or delete by bulk this spam email. Internet DesignWorks, SearchWorks and other companies we are affiliated with using Spam Arrest cut our spam from almost 10,000 spam emails a week to 300 valid emails. You are also able to allow email by domain name (e.g. anything ending in @yourdomainname.com)

I have been so impressed with Spam Arrest, that I offer it on all our company websites. Spam Arrest will allow you to regain control of your email inbox. The company offers a 30 day trial, and stops spammers in their tracks. Try it today and save your company’s spam problem.

Which is better, Google or Yahoo?

The debate between the best search engine will go on I am sure for generations to come. I have found both search engines function relatively the same. The search engine by popularity is Google. It is more known even becoming a word in the English dictionary. Yet concerning relevance does Google measure up, or does Yahoo! hold more weight concerning relevance?

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