Spam Blockers: Unique Challenge for Business

Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. Roger Ebert

The use of email has the potential to eliminate much of the costs associated with sending correspondence through regular mail. Invoices can be sent by email speeding up the payment process. Email can also connect individuals on a global basis in ways that have not been possible in the past.

Environmentalists were thrilled that fewer trees would be needed in a paperless exchange of communication, but theres been a blight in cyberspace known as spam. Those who receive spam emails are about as impressed as those moments at during the evening meal when all telemarketers seem to make calls. The truth is no one likes spam.

Spam is putting the Internet in jeopardy. Phillip Hallam-Baker

Many companies have responded to the difficulties with spam by providing consumers with spam blockers that eliminate most of the spam messages that are sent via cyberspace.

While this is wonderful news for consumers it provides unique challenges for passing along information to customers though bulk mail features even when your customer opts in to a company mailing list.

Many spam blockers see bulk mail of any sort as spam and will typically block those emails. Some programs allow you to review the mail marked as spam to determine if you want to accept it as regular mail, but other programs block it before it ever comes to your in box.

\"The spam wars are about rendering email useless for unsolicited advertising before unsolicited advertising renders email useless for communication.\" Walter Dnes & Jeff Gin

If the above quote is the litmus test for spam wars then this warfare is being won by zealous spam blocking software.

Many legitimate emails are now being sent to a large number of subscribers in a rolling delivery. By limiting the number of emails being sent to opt-in clients, business interests are finding better success in delivering requested materials.

Perhaps there will come a day when there will be a more sophisticated method of differentiating between legitimate bulk mail and spam, until then online marketers are finding increasing success through the use of blogs, optimized site content, forums and RSS feeds as an effective alternative.

Scott Lindsay is a web developer and entrepreneur. He is the founder of HighPowerSites and many other web projects.

Make A Website in minutes with HighPowerSites or Build A Website with BuildAGreatSite.

Start your own ebook business and Resell Ebooks with BooksWealth.

Spam Blockers - What They Can Do to Protect You
Spam blockers might be among the most important things that have to come along with your computer. This is most especially true if you are connected t...

How Do Anti Spam Solutions Work?
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 n...

5 Tips To Stop Email Spam
It's starting to get crazy. It used to be a pleasure to get your email. Now it is a chore having to wade through dozens, even hundreds of unwanted e...

How To Stop Spam Bots Getting Your Email Address
If you're anything like the average Internet user, you'll have seen an annoying increase in the number of spam emails that are hitting your inbox. If...

Free Spam Blocker For Emails
Just think of the time that is wasted every business day going through garbage emails. Even if everyone just spends 10 minutes each day filtering out...

Spam Blockers
If you are regularly browsing the Internet, a spam blocker is a necessity for you. Or you will find your inbox crowded and jammed with junk mail. It n...

Challenge Response Spam Filters Explained
As the flood of spam increases end users are looking for new and more efficient solutions to block spam. In turn software developers are knocking them...

Free Spam Blocker - A Review of Cactus Spam Filter
The amount of spam being sent is on the rise. Unsolicited email now accounts for over 50% of email traffic. There are steps that you can take to cut...

Types of Spam Filters
A spam filter is a web-based program which helps to prevent spam e-mail from entering your inbox. Password filter, blacklist and, whitelist filters, c...

Spam Blockers And The Average Consumer
Spam blockers are absolutely essential to sanity in email correspondence. Chances are pretty strong that if you have signed up for something online yo...

What if We Stopped SPAM?
What if we could defeat SPAM? What if no one could hijack a Zombie Computer? What if SPAM did not come from half way around the world? What if SPAM di...

The Use Of Spam Blockers
Today, it is not only viruses that need to be looked out for when a person using his personal computer to surf the web. With the fast evolution of tec...

Mailwasher - Email Spam Software Review
Mailwasher is a piece of software that claims to be able to help you fight email spam. Here we look at how the product works and whether it is worth ...

The Business Of Sending Spam
You all tear your hair out in frustration every time you see your inbox crammed full of spam again. Have you ever stopped and asked yourself where you...

Should You Be Worried About Spambots?
Spambots are automated software programs that roam the Internet looking for email addresses. They then gather them into a database that is used to bl...

This entry was posted on Sunday, October 19th, 2008 at 11:58 pm and is filed under Anti Spam Filter . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.