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October 2, 2000 |
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The Art of Email Design |
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For those of you who deploy campaigns in HTML on a regular basis, you already know how
to create designed messages for quick and easy downloading. You know that the overall file
size has to remain small. That, of course, means tight graphics (and not too many of them),
along with a clean design. ... »
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September 28, 2000 |
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mySEASONS.com: Building Brand With Email |
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Imagine you're a relatively new e-business. You've got confidence in your business model (after all, you create your own products and control your distribution channel), but you're entering a market dominated by one major player, a company that has a five-year head start over you online. Where do you focus your energy and your marketing dollars? ... »
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September 22, 2000 |
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MAPS Premium "RBL+ Master Service" Announced |
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Redwood City, CA, September 22, 2000 — Mail Abuse Prevention
System (MAPS), the Redwood City based anti-spam organization,
has announced today the release of its new "RBL+ Master
Service". MAPS maintains a series of databases containing the Internet Protocol
addresses ("I.P. addresses") of Internet sites which do not follow MAPS'
suggested email abuse policies. ... »
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September 18, 2000 |
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Online Advertisers Target Spam |
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Online advertisers have formed a coalition to design email standards that will limit spam. A group of 15 companies have started RECA, the Responsible Electronic Communication Alliance. ... »
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August 21, 2000 |
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Make Your Email Disappear — When You Want It To |
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Are you worried about some of the private
messages you've emailed? Could what you wrote
come back to haunt you. Have you changed political
parties and wished you hadn't written those nasty
words? ... »
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August 4, 2000 |
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Setting Limits for WHOIS Data |
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A dispute between a domain name registrar and a Web hosting company could set legal limits
on accessing and using personal information on Internet whois databases.
The issue at stake is whether one company can prevent another from taking
information from a publicly available database and using it for direct marketing.
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August 3, 2000 |
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Microsoft to Move Hotmail to Windows 2000 |
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Microsoft's free email service, Hotmail, currently boasts
30 million subscribers. But lately it's been plagued with
outages and security problems. In a "go for broke" move,
Microsoft will transition its more than 3,000 email servers
from the Unix-based FreeBSD operating system (OS) to
Microsoft's own Windows 2000. ... »
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July 20, 2000 |
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The Congressman Who Loves Spam |
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Email users bombarded with irritating, unsolicited junk email applauded the U.S. House of Representatives' nearly unanimous vote Tuesday to ban spam.
H.R. 3113, which would fine spammers $500 for each piece of unsolicited junk email they send, would have passed unanimously were it not for the representative known throughout the House as "Dr. No."
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July 18, 2000 |
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House Passes Anti-Spam Bill |
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The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly passed a bill that would limit the use of unsolicited e-mail advertising, more commonly known as "spam."
In a vote of 427 to 1, House lawmakers almost unanimously passed H.R. 3113, the Unsolicited Electronic Mail Act, which bans spam unless it includes a return e-mail address that recipients can use to opt out of getting further unwanted messages. ... »
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July 13, 2000 |
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Hotmail punts user email addresses to advertisers |
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A glitch in the code at Hotmail has resulted in subscribers' email addresses being sent
to online advertisers, the company conceded yesterday. This is not a problem unique to the
Microsoft site, but it is the latest in a string of embarrassing technical problems for the
free emailer. ... »
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