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March 1, 2002 |
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Clash of the Free E-Mail Titans |
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When Microsoft bought Hotmail in a stock swap valued at $400 million four years ago, it got quite a bit more than it bargained for. Its plan was to make the deal pay by selling ads on the free e-mail service -- and by eventually converting Hotmail's 8.5 million customers to Microsoft products. The strategy has succeeded spectacularly in one respect: Hotmail has more customers than ever — 110 million ... »
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March 1, 2002 |
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Growing Pains for E-Mail Marketers |
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Tod Loofbourrow is an e-mail marketer's dream and nightmare rolled into one. He's the CEO of Authoria, a rapidly growing 200-employee software producer that creates tools companies use to communicate with employees and customers securely over the Internet. Thus, Loofbourow can help make an Internet pitchman rich. The downside? He has a one-strike-and-you're-out policy on the e-mail solicitations he receives -- and an increasingly itchy finger on the delete button. "I am ruthless," he says. "Most of the time [e-mail pitches] go straight to the junk-mail list. If you're going to pitch a CEO, you had better get it right the first time." ... »
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February 28, 2002 |
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Advanced Direct Remailer 2.15 is Available! |
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This version contains several fixes of small bugs, including fix of dial-up detection on the
dial-up detection on Windows '98 and NT4. ExclList plug-in was
updated, and now you can ban whole domains as well, as email
addresses. New plugin "Recipient" will help you to put recipient's
email everywhere into the message with special macros. It may be
useful, if you wish to add line like
http://unsubscribe/?email=%recipient% to message which will delivered
by mailing list or with multiple recipients. This ADR version may be
installed over any previous ADR version, and we recommend to install
it to all users. Learn more about ADR and download it.
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February 27, 2002 |
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Advanced Email Extractor 2.32 *BETA* is available! |
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Beta of Advanced Email Extractor 2.32 has new search technology.
Now, AEE still work with most of 330+ search engines through our
server's scripts, but pages of ten popular search engines (Google,
Altavista, Lycos and some others) will be processed directly now. Each
our servers processes tens of thousands requests from hundreds of
users each day, and loading of our servers still grow. As result,
our servers may be banned by popular search engines. New technology
solves this problem. Even if you scan hundreds of pages every day,
your IP will not be banned. AEE uploads search settings for popular
engines once at every program launch, when you start a search
through engines. Also, new version has the following changes:
bug with detecting of dial-up connections under Windows NT4
and Windows '98 is fixed now; bug with users scripts in PRO
version is fixed; dead search engines are removed and new
earch engines are added. Try it and help us to make AEE better!
Thank you!
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February 24, 2002 |
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Commission will get e-mail |
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Butler County commissioners will be getting their offices wired for e-mail. That decision was made at Tuesday's regular business meeting. "I think it makes sense to have the commissioners' offices wired for e-mail," remarked commission chairman Randy Doll of Andover, adding "we need to bring those offices into the year 2002." ... »
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February 24, 2002 |
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FBI Investigating Threatening E-Mails Sent to Skater Apolo Ohno |
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The FBI is investigating threatening e-mails sent to U.S. short-track speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno, who has been involved in two controversial races at the Winter Olympics. The 19-year-old Seattle native received more than 40 e-mails with ``non-specific'' threats through the athlete e-mail service on the Salt Lake Organizing Committee's Web site, said Bill Matthews, an FBI special agent based in Salt Lake City for the Winter Games. ... »
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February 23, 2002 |
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Junk e-mail scourge of cyberspace |
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Every time Canada's electronic-commerce watchdog signs on to his Ottawa-office e-mail, he faces a number of pressing public-policy issues, such as: "Would you like to jumpstart your desire and enhance your experience?" and "Register to win your Dream Vacation." There is no way of knowing the volume of unsolicited e-mails being transmitted because no one keeps a scientifically valid scorecard. But anecdotal information strongly suggests that Internet users are being deluged. ... »
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February 22, 2002 |
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E-mail spammers would face tougher restrictions under bill |
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Legislators passed a bill Feb. 12 that would make it harder for e-mail spammers to overload South Dakota e-mail accounts with misleading and unsolicited messages. ... »
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February 22, 2002 |
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EarthLink puts e-mail on PDAs |
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ISP EarthLink expanded into handheld Internet access Wednesday with a wireless Internet service for some devices running Microsoft's and PalmSource's operating systems ... »
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February 22, 2002 |
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Protest e-mails crash Olympic server |
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South Koreans took to the information superhighway on Friday to let the world know their anger at the disqualification of their skater in the Olympic 1,500 meters men's short track on Wednesday ... »
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