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[	June 25, 2002	]	Two new plugins for Advanced Email Extractor

<a href=/aee/><img src=/i/extractor-plugin-2.jpg width=250 height=200 align=left border=0 alt="Advanced Email Extractor with plugins!"></a> We are glad to present two new commercial plugins. Plugins are small auxiliary programs that help AEE to solve specific tasks and extend its capabilities. E.g. plugins can be used to solve tasks of untypical datasource (LDAP and NNTP-servers) processing, to control AEE surfing by screening unneeded links and/or by supplying URLs for processing, to process found e-mail addresses. Also, the plugins can access web-pages under processing and retrieve specific data. Actually, plugin can fully substitute AEE logic, leaving untouched only the HTML parsing function and visualization of the data found. First, "LDAP Plugin" is descigned to extract emails and names from LDAP directories in Intranet/Internet, including directories of Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and iPlanet servers. This plugin is example of processing of untypical sources with AEE. Second is example of retrieving of specific data. "Meta Tags Explorer" is designed to search for metadata (content of meta tags) on pages scanned by Advanced Email Extractor. You can use it to view and analyze metadata found, and save it in varied formats. We are strong recommend to all webmasters to scan their sites with this plugin to catch broken links and get all meta data in one table to check. Plugins are available for download at <a href=/aee/extractor-plugins.html>plugins page</a>. In June-July we plan to release five cool plugins, subscribe to <a href=/newsletters/>AEE newsletter</a> to be informed!
[	June 25, 2002	]	Paying up for a spam seal of approval

An e-mail gateway start-up is pushing marketers to back a plan that would let spam recipients charge companies for unwanted messages. San Bruno, Calif.-based IronPort Systems plans to unveil Tuesday its BondedSender program, aimed at giving legitimate bulk e-mail a seal of credibility. ... »
[	June 25, 2002	]	GE Sells Global Exchange BTB Unit for $800 Million

General Electric Co. will sell 90 percent of its struggling business-to-business e-commerce unit to technology buyout fund Francisco Partners for $800 million, the companies said yesterday. The boards of both companies have approved the sale of the unit, GE Global Exchange, or GXS. The deal is expected to close by Oct. 31. Havey Seegers, president/CEO of GXS will continue to head the unit. GE said it expects to see a pre-tax gain of $500 million from the sale. ... »
[	June 25, 2002	]	NetCreations Launches Pharmaceutical E-Mail List

NetCreations' PostMasterDirect division has debuted the Pharmaceutical E-Mail Masterfile of 12 million double opt-in e-mail names, the division said yesterday. The file consists of prospects who signed up to receive information on medical professionals and ailments from PostMasterDirect's network of more than 500 list owners including medical-related sites such as AskPhysicians, HealthBoards, MedBanners and Medical Mailbox. Topics include: arthritis, back care, blood pressure, epilepsy, gastroenterologists, gastro esophageal reflux disease, healthcare professionals, high osteoporosis, Parkinson's, physicians and stress management. ... »
[	June 24, 2002	]	W32/Yaha-E worm spreading in the wild

Sophos has received an increasing number of reports in the past few days of the W32/Yaha-E worm infecting user's computers. Many of the reports have come from the Netherlands and Switzerland, although there have been submissions to Sophos's support department originating from other countries. ... »
[	June 23, 2002	]	Paying up for a spam seal of approval

An e-mail gateway start-up is pushing marketers to back a plan that would let spam recipients charge companies for unwanted messages. San Bruno, Calif.-based IronPort Systems plans to unveil Tuesday its BondedSender program, aimed at giving legitimate bulk e-mail a seal of credibility. ... »
[	June 23, 2002	]	E-Mail Suggests DWP Role in Trading Scheme

Evidence uncovered by a state Senate investigation of California's electricity crisis includes a warning from an energy trader in which he suggests that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (news - web sites) engaged in "ricochet," a trading scheme to raise power prices that the DWP has denied using. Among the documents turned over to Senate investigators recently and obtained by The Times is a November 2000 e-mail from an employee of the energy-trading arm of Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. ... »
[	June 19, 2002	]	Mailing List Wizard 1.1 has been RELEASED

<a href=/mlw/><img src="/i/mlw-icon.gif" width=32 height=32 border=0 align=left alt="Mailing List Wizard" vspace=3></a> Mailing List Wizard 1.1 has been released at June 19. New version have many changes and improvements in email addresses correction algorithm. Several optional features has been added too. At first, recovery emails by known domains list — if this option is enabled, MLW will recovery emails without first-level domain like <jane@aol>, <mike@hotmail>, to <jane@aol.com> and <mike@hotmail.com>. You can add any number of domains to domains list. Next, removing of known 'REMOVEIT' substrings. This option may affect on valid emails. Addresses like <mikeREMOVEIT@hotmail.com> and <jane@NOSPAMaol.com> are syntactically correct and may exist. If this option is on, MLW will try to recovery such emails to <mike@hotmail.com> and <jane@aol.com>. In correction and filtering operations settings you can turn on emails verifing by first-level domains list. It is the simple check procedure, it compare the first-level domain (e.g., '.com' for <jane@somesite.domain.com>) with all domains in list. But it helpful to remove 'antispam jokes' in mailing lists, like hahaha@dont.spam, someone@invalid.address and so on. To quality emails verifing we recommend <a href=/amv/>Advanced Maillist Verify</a>. You can download <a href=/mlw/>Mailing List Wizard</a> at our <a href=/downloads/>downloads</a> page and learn more about MLW <a href=/mlw/>here</a>.
[	June 19, 2002	]	FBI: Man made e-mail threats

Federal agents have arrested a Miramar data-entry clerk, saying he sent tips to the FBI about an alleged terror plotter who turned out to be himself. Safraz Jehaludi, 21, was arrested June 17 by the Secret Service. He is charged with using ''an instrument of interstate or foreign commerce'' to make a threat, which carries a possible penalty of 10 years in prison. ... »
[	June 19, 2002	]	Friends Help Friends Stop Junk E-mail

For many e-mail users, the war against unsolicited commercial messages — better known as spam — seems to be overwhelmingly impossible to win. There's no escaping e-mails that tout herbal remedies, porn sites, and low-rate mortgages and credit cards. ... »