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November 22, 2000 |
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Critics Blast Report That Supports FBI E-Mail Snooper |
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WASHINGTON - A review of the FBI's Carnivore e-mail surveillance tool largely dismissed criticism that the system invades the privacy of Americans, the head of the review team said Tuesday. ... »
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November 22, 2000 |
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Email Newsletter Ads More Effective Than Banner Ads |
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (INTERNET WIRE) — 11/21/2000 — List-Universe.com, The Email List Owner and Ezine Publisher Resource Network, announced today the results of the first study on email newsletter advertising. Statistics for CPM (cost per thousand impressions) and CTR (click through rate) are broken down by overall results, B2B (business-to-business) newsletter results and B2C (business-to-consumer) newsletter results. ... »
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November 22, 2000 |
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Bestfoods Uses ClickAction for E-Mail Marketing |
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Bestfoods, a leading U.S. food marketer acquired last month by packaged goods giant Unilever, will soon launch an e-mail targeting its end-consumers in nearly 110 markets worldwide. ... »
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November 21, 2000 |
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Jeb Bush under Fire for E-Mail |
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has attempted to run silent and keep deep any of his own thoughts on challenges to his brother's claim to Florida's disputed presidential vote. ... »
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November 20, 2000 |
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Spam Attacks Surge Over 150% Since October |
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 20, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The tidal wave of unsolicited email -- or spam -- is gathering force. Brightmail, Inc., the leading provider of message filtering solutions, reports that the Brightmail Logistics and Operations Center(TM) (BLOC(TM)) intercepted 8,000 -- 13,000 spam attacks each day last week. Each spam attack represents the bulk mailing of a message with unique characteristics sent during a 24-hour period. ... »
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November 20, 2000 |
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***MAPS Back With Charges Against 24/7 Exactis, MSN |
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After a rather quiet month, Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC roared back into the spotlight last week, attempting to place e-mail marketer 24/7 Exactis on its Realtime Blackhole List of spammers and accusing MSN, Microsoft Corp.'s consumer-oriented Web portal, of operating several unsecured mail servers that are open to third-party spam attacks. ... »
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November 20, 2000 |
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E-Mail Brings in Wave of New Visitors |
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Killer Dana Surf Shop saw a huge response from a recently completed rich media e-mail marketing campaign designed to lure Internet users to a new promotion on the company's Web site, www.killerdana.com. ... »
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November 20, 2000 |
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EDITORIAL: Modified Postal Rates Good News for Most |
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Even though mailers are grumbling about the rate increase recommendations by the Postal Rate Commission, many need to remember that most of them are lower than what the U.S. Postal Service asked for. That’s the good news. The bad news is that some mailers and list firms expect less prospecting as a result of the higher mailing costs, something that will hurt the USPS even more in the end. In their reply to the PRC’s recommendations, postal officials said they expect the economy to slow and mail volume to increase only slightly next year. They’re also projecting that population changes around the country will cause the number of addresses to increase by more than 1.7 million new delivery points. ... »
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November 17, 2000 |
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Surgeon on train saves woman - by email |
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A surgeon who was 200 miles from his hospital saved a patient's life - via email. Colleagues who were concerned that a woman's condition was deteriorating called Ahmed Samy while he was on a train, travelling from Edinburgh to Grimsby. ... »
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November 17, 2000 |
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24/7 Media Obtains Temporary Restraining Order Against Maps |
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NEW YORK — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Nov. 17, 2000 — 24/7 Media (Nasdaq: TFSM), one of the largest global interactive marketing and technology solutions companies, today announced that the U.S. District Court in Denver has issued a temporary restraining order against the Mail Abuse Prevention System ("MAPS"). ... »
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