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Success with shared services Joaquim P. Menezes Fostering a culture of innovation across a company with five billion customers raises significant issues of cost and complexity. via ITWorld Canada
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Four out of every five children receive inappropriate spam e-mail touting get-rich-quick schemes, loan programs, and pornographic materials, according to a study released by Internet security provider Symantec … via KGTV San Diego
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Writers Laws for Blogging The Aviva Directory carries an article on Blog Law>12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know . via Writer’s Edge
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According to an advisory today, the Department of Justice has recently become aware of fraudulent spam e-mail messages claiming to be from the Department of Justice, or DOJ. via News Max
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This tip is for all the email server admins out there.Many mail servers have SPAM filtering options enabled that subject the sending mail server to a battery of DNS tests before accepting any mail. This is an attempt to establish the validity of the claimed identity of the sending server before even beginning a […]
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ASSPs primary target audience is mail administrators or system administrators at smallish institutions. If you operate an ISP or a mailhost with a heterogeneous user base you may not have a good enough consensus about what spam is or is not. It should work well with between 1 and 300 client addresses and a mail […]
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Many people don’t know but the Federal Register is the government publication where you can actually find and comment on the laws, regulations and rules that affects each one of us in all we do. It’s interesting to read the…
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LashBack is encouraging everyone attending the Authentication Summit to plan for an early arrival to attend this important briefing from Microsoft. Windows Live Hotmail: Insights for Marketers Briefing, Tuesday, April 17 at the Boston Sheraton The day before the Authentication…
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Today MAAWG, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) has issued the MAAWG Sender Best Communications Practices (BCP) with collaborative input from both volume senders and Internet Service Providers. The new best practices recommend sender email technologies and subscription methods to…
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We are encouraging everyone to attend the July 11-12th FTC SPAM Summit Workshop in Washington, DC at the FTC Conference Center. Read LashBack’s official public comment: The Next Generation of Solutions When the CAN-SPAM Act took effect on January 1,…
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Setting up your DNS with a Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record is a great way to help ensure that your email makes it through to your intended recipients.In a nutshell, a SPF record in your DNS tells the receiving mail server whether your email server is allowed to send mail for your domain. It […]
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LashBack is a devoted Dell shop. All our servers and most of our desktops proudly display the Dell logo. Like most businesses who buy Dell, I often receive email marketing from Dell. Historically, the email offers I receive from Dell…
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13 Reasons Why Nofollow Tags SuckI couldn’t agree more with the points made in this article and it really got me thinking. The rel=”nofollow” move was a pretty good idea at the time: Mark all comments and trackbacks with rel=”nofollow” to prevent the search engines from handing out PageRank to comment and trackback SPAM. […]
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One of my mail servers runs FreeBSD 6.2 and uses the PF firewall. Mail is filtered using Anti-SPAM SMTP Proxy (ASSP) and is then handed over to Postfix. ASSP is working very nicely now that the Bayesian filter is mostly trained.I was reading through this article on Greylisting with PF and it got […]
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Postfix is great for filtering SPam Many email administrators prefer to filter inbound email using Postfix running on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or some other UNIX platform before relaying it to an internal Microsoft Exchange server. This strategy allows administrators to take advantage of the flexibility of Postfix and a wide variety of open source […]
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ISPs are one of the most vocal opponents of SPAM because it eats up their bandwidth. Yet, a lot of ISPs continue to allow their customers to send email out to the world on TCP port 25 with no restrictions. Huh?I’m of the opinion that the ISPs need to take more responsibility for […]
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The Email Sender and Provider Coalition (ESPC) has published a survey of consumer comprehension of email unsubscribe. The results suggest that consumers understand the difference between reporting spam and unsubscribing from email lists. Consumers would prefer more control over their…
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