Darwin’s Evolution of the Internet – E-Commerce

Since Darwin theorized the evolution of mankind, humans too are evolving and developing technology, not in million to billion years span as what Darwin in his theory recorded, but in an instant rapid growth especially in the 21st century. In this age where everything comes in a click of a button, even toothbrushes, the Internet is the main menu to it all. Since this year, it is all about “clicking”, computers are everywhere and the Internet access has indeed became a household commodity. Practically everyone who knows how to click knows what a Farmville is. With that, all types of information are accessible from the Net. Business wise, the business playground and the target market have considerably increase and competitively varied. Anyone can create a business account and furthermore enjoy the hassle free advertising. Streamlined operation is one of the biggest advantages the Internet has provided to business which already existed. This provides better and smoother transactions in their operations. Internet consumption and Internet production are obviously creating waves in business pie charts and statistics tables. In this era where The Theory of Evolution is no longer read in hard-bound books, but is accessible in a URL site, there is a new found flea-free but not spam-free market – that is the Internet.

Internet is indeed the most revolutionary invention of the fields of technology human has ever experience. This is the century which the bare tip of a finger has never been powerful and influential. With just one soft-touch click to go online, you can communicate any from anyone around the globe. What is only required is an Internet connection. The world is a finger tip away and you are a finger tip away from the world. Your morning coffee doesn’t necessarily need a newspaper, but a computer screen. You can also download your favorite music, programs and movies anytime. You can forget yourself waiting for the DJ to play your requested song. Another benefit the Internet has opened is the sharing your personal updates to your friends worldwide. You can upload and share your pictures, audios and videos in your personal networking sites and your friends will simply know what happened to you on that particular day. You can even tell the whole wide world that what you had for lunch was an overcooked french fries through blogging. But the main object here is how the Internet has made its way to business – buying and selling and how the businesses made this into a huge profitable wave.

If the last specie of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution is the homo sapien, then greatest offspring of the internet is “e-commerce” or electronic commerce. E – commerce is basically the online selling and buying in the Internet. To define, E- business is merely the exchange of information through the net within business or external companies while e-commerce is advertising, selling and buying a product online. For Example, a product is advertised online and if someone likes it, he can buy it online too.

This is now the birth of a cute baby homo sapien, the “e-market” or “electronic market”. E-market is not like a regular market -where goods are segregated in shelves and people take them, pay them as they leave. There is no physical world to e-market but a World Wide Web market that can only be seen, not felt. E-marketing is simply businesses informing the world that they offer a particular service or sell this certain product online. If someone wants to buy it or avail of the service, it is plainly called “e-purchasing”.

July 9th, 2010 by blythe100 in Uncategorized | No Comments

The 9 Important Things That Internet Marketers Must Do to Survive Online

The dream of every marketer is to find a profitable market with the highest returns. Unfortunately there is no one button or magic formula that will turn such dreams into reality. But there are the tried and tested methods and systems that have consistently worked over the years. Combining the right attitude and some hard work, with the following powerful marketing tips, you should see growth in your sales and your ability to not only survive, but thrive in the Internet Marketing world.

So what is the secret to survival?

1. Keeping the customer’s attention and having dedicated internet sites.

Every product you promote should have a unique page and domain name associated with it. Skimping on the costs of hosting each site separately by lumping them all together, is not a good idea. It looks very unprofessional. You will also wind up with un-targeted buyers, and less traffic overall. It is far better to spread out your products on different sites and send targeted traffic to each specific product. This will generate more sales for you. Having several products on one page or site distracts the attention of the reader away from your focal point. That is the last thing you want to do. The goal is to have the complete attention of the prospective customer on one thing at a time – the page at hand.

2. The target.

Your website traffic should be targeted to your product or service. In fact, wherever possible, hyper targeted. No matter how great your site or product is, if a person has no interest in your product, they will simply leave your site. Set up strategies to bring in targeted leads.

Writing articles to promote your site is a great way to get free targeted traffic. Write on topics related to your product or niche. Find a way to relate your article to your website or product. Write and publish your articles several times a week or every day if you can manage it. Anywhere between 300 and 600 words is a good length in general for your articles.

Remember to be selective with your keyword usage. Although it is not a complete disaster to have un-targeted keywords in your free traffic generation methods, at worst you may have wasted some time and lost potential traffic.

However, if you paid for this traffic in advertising, you may throw away a lot of money, with bad keyword usage.

For example: If you are selling golfing equipment and advertising with Pay Per Click using the keyword “sports equipment”, what do you think will happen? You will have a large number of clicks on your advertisements. But how many people will be looking for golfing equipment specifically? Your un-targeted traffic will be looking for everything from baseball gloves to cricket balls. Statistically, few people in that traffic stream will be looking for golfing equipment. That is an expensive venture indeed when using paid traffic generation. So choose your keywords carefully.

3. Writing reviews.

It is important for prospective customers to understand the value of the product in question. Secondly, they will want to know how it will help, entertain or educate them. Reviews are a great way to educate your prospects and entice them to become customers.

When it comes to purchasing products, people often make decisions based on what other people’s experiences have been. Providing testimonials is fantastic for this purpose, so use that to your advantage by including them in sales letters and emails. Ask for your customers’ permission to use their testimonials, including their name and preferably a photograph on your site and in newsletters.

4. Provide product information.

People are busy, and they like quick access to all sorts of information without needing to go and try to find it. So provide as much information about your product on your site as possible. Once again, it maintains the prospect’s focus on your site and product.

Demonstrating the uses of your product is a valuable resource which should be included on an additional page on your site, in the form of an article. For example, if you are selling jewelry cleaning product which also happens to be great for cleaning bathroom tiles, providing that sort of information will increase your conversions. Create a list of all the product’s uses. Bullet point them and include brief descriptions where needed.

Highlight all the relevant points and information on your page, to keep the viewer reading and more aware of what your page is about. The more a person becomes familiar with a new product, the more they become a customer with a buying mind. Keeping them reading helps this process, provided it is useful content.

5. Using multiple purpose marketing websites.

One of two things happens with a marketing website. You either have a closed sale, or you have a “bounce”. This is the problem with not having a mailing list.

If you have a sale immediately, you lose the customer for follow-up sales. If you have a ‘bounce’, you lose the customer completely. Should the customer bounce, you have wasted much of your website building and traffic generation efforts. This is because there is no convenient way to contact your customer if they purchased something from you, and no logical reason for thinking that the ‘bounced’ customer will either find or revisit your site. What to do about this problem?

6. Build ‘a list’.

By having an opt-in box to subscribe to your mailing list, you can continue to build a relationship with both the prospects and the paying customers. Periodic reminders about your product via email will increase the likelihood of a sale to prospects over time.

According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect. That means that in order to be a successful internet marketer in the long term, you must build a list. That does not necessarily mean you need to write a years worth of daily emails and load them all in an autoresponder. Nor does it mean you need to write every day, depending upon your target audience.

If you are in the health products niche, you may like to email your customers quite often. In this niche, many of these products are consumables and they change continually.

For a niche such as personal development, generally purchases are not so frequent. In such events, you can use the interim time between sales to build a customer relationship with helpful hints and other information via newsletters or bulletins.

7. Spot your prospects a free lunch.

You must have heard the expression, ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’? Well that is true. But free products are a great way to build your list. The hidden price of the “free lunch” is a subscription to your mailing list, which many people are willing to do nowadays.

The idea behind the free gift is two-fold. Firstly, it provides a compelling offer, in exchange for a prospect’s information via an opt-in box. This of course provides you with the option to email prospects with offers on multiple occasions.

The second reason is to provide an offline link back to your website(s). That can be complicated to achieve with software giveaways, and not very likely to work well. However free software is great to send to your list, as a way to show your appreciation for being valued subscribers.

One of the best freebies to give away is an eBook. As a customer, I tend to appreciate eBooks over videos. That is because eBooks are usually more concise and have a higher content density as compared with videos or recorded webinar events.

It is more difficult to make professional appearing videos versus professional eBooks. Videos take more time to demonstrate the same content as a PDF, and often they are merely long-winded sales pitches in disguise. That is fine for sales purposes, but the idea here is to provide something of value, and build a list. If you wish to use video giveaways, provide content without a sales pitch. Make your videos interesting, and to the point.

8. Surprise lunch

It is important to make sure where possible, that your free item is closely related to your saleable product.

Firstly, being off topic with your “freebie” means that your potential customer who was enticed by that free item, is not targeted to your saleable product.

Secondly, you can use the benefit or information vacuum created between your freebie and saleable product, so as to increase the apparent value of your saleable product to your list.

For example: Say I am in the natural foods niche and I am selling a vegetable juicer machine. If my freebie is an e-book called ‘Natural Therapy with Juiced Vegetables’, I can use that to a distinct advantage to promote my juicer.

However, if the freebie is a book called ‘10 Vegetables That Benefit Your Health’, the likelihood is far fewer sales. While reading the latter eBook, the prospect may have started thinking about spending their money on other natural health books, or on organic vegetables for example, rather than buying your juicer. So wherever possible, keep the freebie and your product tied closely together, to keep the prospect’s train of thought on one track.

9. Email relationships and sales.

While building your relationships through emails, focus on important and related topics to your niche. Periodically you can briefly explain how your product is beneficial, when doing so relates to the email topic.

In more sales-prompting emails, include what is good about your product and how the product will help your customers with their problems, education etc. However, try not to make your emails sound like a sales pitch. You want to send them to a sales page to take care of that part of the equation. Remind your customers about your products positive impact on other people, with testimonials where available and appropriate.

When writing emails, avoid certain keywords which will increase the likelihood they will be filtered as spam. Words like “free”, “money” and “business” are typical examples of spam filter triggers. It is possible to alter these words to fool the filters, such as using ‘fr.ee’ or ‘fr ee’ but it looks sloppy. So avoid those words where possible.

The best advice I can give is to focus your efforts on a good strategy and an action plan. A good strategy will require far less work and effort in the long term, rather than trying to do everything “on the fly”. Form a strategy; make a list of requirements to fulfill that strategy, and then take action steps every day.

Become an expert at each stage of your overall system. There is no need to rush anything, and this is usually counterproductive in any case. Breaking down your required actions into smaller manageable steps is actually rather easy, and far less overwhelming. Take the time to do everything well.

Following this advice, you have a far greater chance of creating a long and successful internet marketing career. Enjoy the process of building a strong business, and you will reap the rewards for many years to come.

July 3rd, 2010 by blythe100 in Uncategorized | No Comments

What Is Anti-Spam Software?

Before we learn about anti-spam software, we need to first know what is spam. To put it succinctly, spam is unsolicited and unwanted email. Other names for spam are Unsolicited Bulk Mail, Excessive Multi-Posting, and Unsolicited Commercial email, in addition to the more common – spam mail, bulk email or just junk mail. The advent of email brought in an era of instant communication, where information reaches our desktops, at negligible cost, and in no time at all, from across the globe.

Along with the benefits, came the negative aspects of email. For the multitudes of marketing hawks out there, this was an opportunity to send unsolicited promotions of their products, instantly, and at a very low cost. Today, spam has reached such monumental proportions that 10 out of every 13 emails (76.9%) we receive are spam, one way or the other. This is why anti-Spam filter has become a must have software for almost all PC users.

Stopping Spam

Simply put, anti-spam software helps detect spam. It is a software program that detects unsolicited and unwanted e-mail, and prevents them from reaching your inbox.

Anti-Spam Filter software is also known by many different names, such as: Spam Filters, Email Spam Filtering, Spam Blocking Software, Anti-Spam Filter, Spam Filtering Software, Spam Blockers, Bayesian Filters, and Anti-Spam, among many others.

Anti-spam software is installed in your machine to divert the spam coming in. If installed in the mail server, you will never receive the spam, to begin with. The filtering is configured based on a number of criteria. These could be specific words in the subject line, in the body of the message, and the type of attachments accompanying the mail. You could arrange to filter out even the sender’s email address. Certain Internet Service Providers (ISPs) maintain a blacklist of habitual spam senders – known as spammers. Anti-spam software detects these blacklisted senders and rejects them per se.

Over time, anti-Spam filter has become sophisticated to match with the wiles of the spammers. They use techniques that do not trash genuine emails by effectively analyzing the content of the email. Such software looks for keywords and tries to interpret their meanings in the sentences. Certain spam filters do not accept emails that come to you in the form of “Undisclosed Recipients.” They accept emails where your email address is in the “to” or “cc” fields.

Anti-spam software has become an essential part of your computer’s security, to ensure that you only receive the emails you want, and not others. To help eliminate spam, look for anti-spam software that has the following features, among many others:

Blocking emails using both lists and preset filters – blocks specific addresses, watches subject lines, and messages within

Updating filters automatically

Isolates spam outside of your inbox

Puts acceptable emails automatically into your safe list

Monitors and filters multiple email accounts

Now that you know the basics about the need and importance of anti-Spam filter, select the right one for your computer and get rid of the menace of Spam.

June 28th, 2010 by blythe100 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Why Does Your Business Need a Spam Filter?

Spam plagues email inboxes around the globe. The cost of spam for businesses and individuals can be steep. From unwanted solicitations to identity theft, spam is a serious issue. Endless hours are spent on spam damage control. A spam filter helps to eliminate these annoying and potentially dangerous communications.

Recently Ferris Research revealed the worldwide cost of spam totaled $100 billion in 2007. A spam filter makes life easier by clearing up files. Spam protection also helps ward off possible viruses that may be lurking within suspicious emails.

Almost 100 billion spam emails are sent out everyday. A large number of these emails are sent from botnets or zombie networks. Spam communications include sales of products and services, pornographic content and viruses that can seriously damage your computer system.

More than a quarter of all corporate email received is spam. It takes an average of five seconds to delete a spam email. Hours are wasted deleting spam correspondence when employees could be spending their time performing more productive tasks. A spam filter saves your business time and money by filtering out the majority of these undesirable emails.

Your email address is often posted on your business website. While this makes it easy for customers to contact you, it also leaves your business open to receiving spam. Consider using an alternate email address on your business website so your everyday email box is not overflowing with spam. Have a spam filter in place to filter out the most offensive correspondence.

Make sure you never open spam emails. When you open spam emails, you are likely to receive more or even be the target of a vicious virus. Warn employees to delete spam emails without opening them. Use a spam filter to minimize the problem of processing spam.

Viruses can compromise private corporate data and even cause identity theft. Protecting your business and your customers is of key importance. To have a successful online business, customers need to feel secure about your operations. Getting rid of spam helps your business maintain a higher level of security.

Your business is more productive when less spam is filling its inboxes. For a minimal monthly cost, a spam filter will help to get rid of offensive correspondence. Email should save time and not waste it. Get a spam filter to regain valuable business time and eliminate the threat of unwanted emails.

June 27th, 2010 by blythe100 in Uncategorized | No Comments

SPAM – History and Prevalence

The term Spam is thought to be derived from a Monte Python skit. But the fact that Spam makes up over 80 percent of emails sent isn’t that funny!

A Monte Python sketch performed in 1970 references the British rationing during World War II. SPAM was one of the only meat products that was readily available and not being rationed. Python’s sketch is set in a café and every item on the menu contains Spam lunch meat. A song repeating the word SPAM is being sung and is drowning out the waiter who is dictating the SPAM filled menu in detail.

An instance of unsolicited commercial email was originally noted in 1978. Although it seems that the idea was born years earlier when an unsolicited electronic messaging using the media occurred by telegram in 1864! In the 1980’s the term Spam started to be used to describe annoying users of early chat rooms who would repeatedly type the word Spam in an abusive manner to drive others out of the room. Especially others from rival groups surrounding said topic. They would also flood the screen with quotes from the Monte Python sketch in the same manner. Soon rather than being called flooding or trashing it became common place to refer to these methods as spamming. Later it evolved to mean excessive multiple posting of the same message. In the 1990’s we began to see the excessive amount of “get rich quick” schemes being advertised in this manner. Commercial spamming began in 1994 courtesy of two lawyers advertising their immigration law services. Shortly there after the focus of spamming and anti spam efforts moved to email and that is where the focus of this phenomenon remains today.

Most of us receive some type of Spam everyday. Spam is incredibly easy and inexpensive to create and can be very profitable. There are a number of companies set up to send “bulk e-mail”. They are able to send billions of messages a day. In the US there have been a number of lawsuits concerning Spam and laws created trying to reduce the production. Therefore, it is becoming more prevalent that these companies operate out of foreign countries. They have also changed their soliciting methods to read “spam-free” which refers to a person who has chosen to “opt-in” by clicking a box near the end of some enrollment form thereby agreeing to have updates or newsletters sent. Sometimes this box is pre checked and you must unclick in order to “opt-out”. These names are then sold to the bulk e-mailing companies.

Spam filtering software is the best technology available at the present time to reduce Spam. Spam filtering is included in most versions of anti virus software [http://www.thesoftwarespot.com/default.asp?SID=x5BBA4U3TP7GMHKX5UA9Q3&S=500&A=F&SearchText=&CategoryID=1693568&NID=6372614]. It is pretty simple for spammers to sidestep these filters simply by misspelling keywords. Also, these filters often block e-mail that you do want to receive because of key words being misinterpreted. SPAM hits other venues besides email such as instant messaging, chat rooms, newsgroups, forums, mobile phones, online games, search engines, and blogs. For the time being it looks like the only way to avoid a majority of Spam is to avoid traditional email all together. Requiring a person to fill out a form that is in turn sent to the recipient successfully blocks spammers. This is currently how many business and organizations including the White House are handling their e-mail.

The term Spam is thought to be derived from a Monte Python skit but is not received by many as being humorous. Spamming is a phenomenon that has been beneficial for some and a nuisance to the masses who make up the recipients of the billions of messages sent per day.

June 24th, 2010 by blythe100 in Uncategorized | No Comments

How to Stop Spam (Especially If You’re Already a Victim)

Spam. Those annoying, time-consuming emails that clog your Inbox and ruin your day. You wonder: How did it ever get so bad? While it’s not possible to completely eliminate spam, there are quite a few things you CAN do about the problem to reduce your burden.

Spam is defined as an unsolicited email trying to get you to buy something. In addition, it’s email that tries to get you to give up something: your credit card number, social security number, login ID, etc., by pretending to be a legitimate email. Here are some tips for stopping the current spam you’re getting, and avoiding getting on new spam lists.

1. Maintain two email addresses: a Personal Email Address (that you give to family, friends and business associates), and a Safe Email Address (one you use whenever you’re ordering something online, signing up for an email newsletter, or creating a profile on a website).

For instance, I use a Hotmail account for my Safe Email Address. If a spammer were to get a hold of that address, fine. All the spam will go into my Hotmail account, which I only look at once a week. Hotmail has a great anti-spam filter built in, so it’s easy to see what’s spam and what’s not. This practice leaves my personal email account relatively spam-free (maybe I get two spam emails a day to my personal account). Some free email services include Hotmail, Yahoo and GMail.

2. Use your Safe Email Address to send emails to companies who might be harvesting email addresses from incoming emails. For example, say you want to write to a company to ask them about their products. Some companies will harvest your email address from the email you send to them, and put you on their mailing list. By using your Safe Email Address, you can avoid seeing messages from these companies come to your personal email address.

3. Stop giving your email address to everyone who wants it. Does your local bank really need your email address? Does your grocery store need it? Just because someone asks for it doesn’t mean you have to give it to them. If it’s a non-local company, or you are signing up for a mailing list, then they probably do need it. But it’s okay to leave the email address blank when filling out forms. Always ask yourself, Do I want to be contacted by this company via email? (Speaking of mailing lists, make sure the companies you subscribe to have a public, posted Privacy Statement on their website.)

4. Do not put your Personal Email Address on your website. Instead, use a form so that your email address is hidden. However, some spammers use special software that looks at the HTML code hidden in the form to steal your email address, so using a form by itself isn’t always the safest route. Better yet, use a free Form Processor so that your email address is never even in the HTML coding on your pages.The service I use is Bravenet’s Email Form processor (www.bravenet.com)

5. Never buy anything that’s sent through a spam email. First, it just encourages them to continue to spam. Second, it tells them that your email address is accurate, and they can then sell that address to someone else.

6. Never reply to spam and ask to be unsubscribed. They’ll just ignore it anyway, and it tells them that your email address is accurate, which just keeps you on the list. Note: many legitimate emails newsletters and mailing lists use automated unsubscribe links at the bottom of their emails, and you CAN use these to get off of mailing lists.

7. Use anti-spam software, like Norton Internet Security, on your own PC to filter spam as it comes into your email system. You still receive the spam, but it gets filtered to a Junk Mail or Bulk Mail folder, and segregates the spam from the legitimate email. Most anti-spam filters need to be trained, however, so you’ll have to occasionally tell the filter that something is NOT spam that it inadvertently put into the Junk Mail folder. Many of these anti-spam filters work on the principle of White Lists (legitimate email addresses that you DO want to receive email from) and Black Lists (spammer email addresses that you do NOT want to receive email from). Learn how to train your anti-spam software and it will work wonders for you.

8. Check to see if your ISP or hosting company has anti- spam technology in place, to catch spam before it even hits your Inbox. Be careful, though, because sometimes these filters are over-zealous and you have to train it to accept emails from mailing lists that you have subscribed to.

9. Do not use a catch-all email address. A catch-all email address is set up if you have your own website, and it is intended to catch all of the incoming emails sent to your domain even if there is no legitimate mailbox by that name. For example, your email address might be mary @ mydomain.com. If that mailbox is set up as a catch all, and someone sends an email to marie@mydomain.com (with a spelling mistake in the email name), it will be forwarded to mary @ mydomain.com. However, spammers know about catch-all email addresses, and will take your domain name mydomain.com and add common prefixes to it, like info@ or admin@. If you have a catch- all, then those spamming emails will come to you, even if you don’t have a legitimate mailbox of info@mydomain.com or admin@mydomain.com set up with your hosting company. See how easy it is for spammers to get to you?

10. Finally, if spam is really bad, create a new personal email address for yourself, tell everyone about the new address (give them several reminders that you are changing email addresses), then delete the old personal email address. This may seem a little drastic, but if you receive 200 spam emails a day, it might be time to time this final step to eradicate it.

You are not powerless against spam. But you do have to take action to fight back. Don’t let them bully you into accepting hundreds of unwanted emails a day! Take action now to reclaim your Inbox!

June 12th, 2010 by blythe100 in Uncategorized | No Comments

How to Fight Spam Emails

Not even one day goes in our life without encountering one or two of the spam emails. It drives everyone crazy when you get that email in your box to see some advertisements. If you can follow the below tips, you will be able to avoid spam to a great extent.

Never give your personal email

If you have a habit of subscribing to offers for magazines or books, do not use your personal or official email. Instead open another email with Yahoo, Gmail or some web email providers you choose and use the same on the net. This makes sure that your personal email is closed from the spam.

Use Junk Email filter

Most of the email programs provide option to filter your email so that the spam email does not land in your mailbox. Use this filters effectively to fight the junk mails.

Do not install unknown software

There are lot of software programs on the net which promises to provide you with free screensavers and utilities. Some of them contain Spyware and Adware and keyloggers which extract info about your usage patterns and send it to the spammers. Make sure to have an updated and quality Antivirus and Antisoftware installed onto your PC. If you do want to install the screensaver, make sure to have it checked against the antivirus and Antisoftware first.

Install spam filter software

If you are using the Microsoft Outlook or Eudora to manage your email there are some in built spam filter mechanism are built in place. However, there is some software called spam filters which can help you strengthen the junk mail filter. This software offers spam protection to a large extent in addition to your email filter. You can get good quality spam filter software by search on Google.

May 31st, 2010 by blythe100 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Spam – The Facts and Figures

Spam is the result of the activities of a small number of people; however these activities are becoming a big problem for Internet users. Spammers are flooding the Internet with messages and making it increasing difficult to get on with our daily tasks and work, which involves the Internet.

Spammers are not only attacking our inbox they have also started to turn on anti-spam sites. They have started to send out spam emails using the anti-spammers names, email addresses and website addresses within their spam messages. This is known as a ‘Joe-job.’ The reason as to why spammers do this is to cause trouble for the people who are fighting them and trying to stop them sending out spam messages.

There are two main forms of spam present on the Internet. The one is what we all already know about, email spam, which targets individual users with direct mail messages and steals Internet mailing lists as well as searching the web for email addresses that spammers can add to their spam lists.

The second popular form of spam on the Internet is not so well known. This comes in the form of Usenet spam. This is a single message that is sent to around 20 users of Usenet newsgroups. However through experience Usenet users have grown to ignore such messages as they have found that a message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant. These messages are aimed at ‘lurker’s,’ people who read newsgroups but never post in them or rarely post in them. By doing this spammers are robbing the user’s utility of the newsgroup as it will be overwhelmed with adverts and irrelevant posts.

The submission of the name “Spam” to unwanted posts and communication originates in Chat-rooms. It was first seen in the chat-rooms of People-Link in the early 1980’s as a way of getting rid of unwanted “newcomers.” When someone would enter a chat-room full of friends who were in mid-conversation, and tried to turn the conversation in an unwelcome direction, two veteran members of the room would begin typing in the Monty Python “Spam” routine at high speed. They would fill the screen with “Spam Spam Spam eggs Spam Spam and Spam” etc, and make all other communication impossible. The other members of the room would just wait until the newcomer moved on to a different room.

Email, newsgroup and chat room spam is a globally growing problem with the countries that spread the most spam globally being the USA (28.4%), South Korea (5.2%), China (4.9%) and Russia (4.4%).

There has previously been pressure to make email spam illegal and it has been successful in certain jurisdictions but not in all meaning that spammers merely take advantage of this fact and post more spam to places where they won’t get in trouble for doing so.

Anti spammers want to see this pressure to make spam illegal more often as spam can not only waste many production hours and be really aggravating; it can also lead to criminal activity in the sense that spammers have to potential to spread computer viruses such as Trojan horses and other malicious software. There objective for doing this may well be identity theft meaning that action needs to taken against spammers and it needs to be taken now.

May 23rd, 2010 by blythe100 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Block Junk Emails Using an Email Spam Blocker

People do not know that they are usually responsive for the spam they get in the email. Even if you don’t have a spam filter, you can block junk email by avoiding to give your email address lightly. When you give your details on a web site that requires registration, you create the premises for spam. Consider just the following instances when you gave your address easily: for page registration, for subscribing to white or yellow pages, to friends, for software downloads, in online forums and chat rooms, and the list may go on.

Other than prevention, the most basic way to block junk email is to install spam filters or spam blockers to eliminate the unwanted messages from the start. These programs can function on the server or on the personal computer, scanning incoming mails, filtering, quarantining or removing completely the messages that resemble spam. The efficiency with which such tools block junk email depends on design and features. At the moment, there is no 100% anti-spam efficiency, and the maximum you can get is 99%.

You can block junk email or at least limit it by creating a temporary email also known as fake address account. The purpose here is to use such a temporary email only once when you need to access some information that is not otherwise possible. When you avoid disclosing your real email address, the possibility of being targeted by spammers is lower. This is however not a reason to discard the use of an email filter, as anything can happen on the Internet in terms of email access. Thanks to a blocking tool that acts between the email program and the email server, any potential spamming message can be detected.

Paid and free solutions are both available for download. Before shopping for commercial products, look for the softwares that come for free and have an over 90% efficiency rate. Make sure to test any spam email filter that you buy; consider another tool is trial versions are not available. At present the market has been flooded by hundreds of commercial softwares designed to block junk email, and it should not be that hard to find an item that matches your PC specifics.

May 19th, 2010 by blythe100 in Uncategorized | No Comments

Finding a Good Proxy – Proxy List

A proxy or proxy server is used for either easy access to a specific resource like a website or a page and its contents, or to stay anonymous when surfing online – mainly for security reasons. Using proxies is simply the best way to stay anonymous online.  

The question is, “How do I find a good proxy?” Because finding a working and reliable proxy can, indeed, be laborious. Though proxies are everywhere and are easily searchable, you can spend countless hours searching for a good one that would work wonders for you. Some websites do provide lists of working proxies. I can give you some tips on finding the best and updated source of proxies that could assist you in your web surfing antics.  

Tip No. 1: Check for proxies that were most recently searched in Google Blog Search. Blogs are frequent and have fresh content. There are a quantity of proxy users who write and blog about proxy sites and lists. Therefore, they provide user-based options and information. Searching for information about proxies from these media forms will give you fresh inputs on the “What’s hot?” and “What’s not?” in the proxy users world.   

Tip No. 2: Forums. I’ve made use of this a couple of times especially when I’m in trouble. I found so many interesting things in forums and learn most of them easily because of tips and recommendations from members. In forums, you can find varying information from user opinions, discussing about issues and topics ranging from the technical stuff to their favorite hobbies. Users discuss about details about results and, most of the times, rate particular products or services and these do not exclude using proxies. There are numerous proxy forum communities online that provide their members with frequently updated proxies. These are forums you can join for free and also give you access to proxy lists immediately. Lists are, usually, updated daily.  

Now, with these tips, finding the proxies you need would be much easier. There is no need to subscribe to any charged service. No need to receive useless and bulky mails in your mailbox. Proxy lists are just one click away.

May 14th, 2010 by blythe100 in Uncategorized | No Comments