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April 19, 2002 |
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Annoying Worm Writer Wants Job |
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The latest virus to hit e-mail inboxes is little more than a slight variant of a year-old virus. But it's beginning to resemble never-ending installments of a lousy horror movie series with only minor plot variations. But antiviral firms are reporting that the latest variant of Klez is spreading rapidly, just as its most recent predecessor did just last month.
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April 18, 2002 |
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Napster Co-Developer Offers Anti-Spam Tool |
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Jordan Ritter, one of the developers of online music sharing service Napster, and software developer Vipul Ved Prakash plan to introduce anti-spam technology next month that reportedly goes further than other such technologies by making judgments about e-mail and learning patterns of spam. The developers claim tests of the technology, called Folsom, on e-mail networks containing 40 percent to 60 percent spam reduced unwanted messages to almost zero. They also said it blocks fewer legitimate e-mails than other technological solutions. ... »
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April 16, 2002 |
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Cordless e-mail phones to hit Europe |
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Three electronics giants have announced plans to sell fixed-line phones that can send and receive e-mail. Panasonic, Philips and Siemens say they will first launch the cordless phones in Europe, where residents already send an estimated 30bn e-mails via their mobile phones. The companies have yet to reveal plans for the e-mail phones in the US, where about 94 per cent of homes have landline cordless phones. ... »
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April 16, 2002 |
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Bezos' e-mail protest deluges Authors Guild |
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In response to a plea from Amazon.com head Jeff Bezos, thousands of e-mails have been sent to the Authors Guild protesting the guild's call for writers to remove links on their Web sites to the online retailer. The Authors Guild has criticized Amazon's policy of offering used editions of new books, noting that neither authors nor publishers receive royalties, which they do on new books that also sell for more than the used editions. ... »
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April 15, 2002 |
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Advanced Mailbox Processor v1.1 is Available |
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In the new AMP version you can delete e-mails from the invalid domains, technical e-mails or
e-mails by wildcards mask or regular expression. Also, several small bugs were fixed.
You can learn more about Advanced Mailbox Processor on AMP homepage, and
get it from our downloads page.
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April 15, 2002 |
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What are e-mail extractors for? |
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Most people think e-mail extractor is a one from spam programs. It is a major spammer's tool, indeed. But, like any other tool, e-mail extractors can be used for many different applications. The very fact that you are extracting emails list from an HTML document on a local disc or on a web-site doesn't explicitly mean that you are going to send unwanted messages to the addresses extracted.
Below you will find a couple of examples of how one can use e-mail extractor for absolutely "legal" purposes
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April 15, 2002 |
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Watchdog Group Questions Legality of Chicago DM Show Promo |
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The Chicago Association of Direct Marketing rescinded an offer late last week after an Illinois anti-gambling organization accused it of running an illegal promotion for next week's Direct Marketing Days conference. The promotion, of which there were at least two versions -- a letter and a self-mailer -- offered early registrants a chance to win four direct marketing reference guides. The offer said in part, "We're only giving away 15 sets - and you can only be entered in the drawing if you pre-register for DM Days right now." ... »
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April 13, 2002 |
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Age no bar to loving and using e-mail |
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Recently I was asked to photograph a going-away party at a nursing home. At the event, an 80-something woman asked for some copies of my work. I asked if she had an e-mail address, at which point she drew herself up to full height and said, "Well, of course!" Clearly, e-mail isn't just for we youngsters who use it to speed up life's daily pace. Senior citizens, who may be perfectly satisfied to move at a slower rate, use the technology to stay in touch with friends and family; with nary a whiff of business. ... »
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April 12, 2002 |
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E-mail to land in cordless phones |
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Panasonic, Philips Electronics and Siemens will begin selling "landline" phones that have the ability to send and receive e-mails, according to announcements this week. The initial wave of telephones will debut in Europe, where using a phone to send e-mails isn't such a foreign notion as it is to Americans. An estimated 30 billion e-mails are exchanged between cell phone users every month in Europe. ... »
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April 10, 2002 |
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DMA Cites 5 Companies on Ethics Violations |
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The Direct Marketing Association has charged five companies with violating its Guidelines for Ethical Business Practice, the association announced as part of its latest ethics report released yesterday. Two of the companies are sweepstakes marketers, and three are online marketers. None are DMA members ... »
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