Fear and Gloating at kausfiles
Posted by Administrator on Dec 29, 2005
Slate - Maybe it would be good for Bush if Karl Rove were indicted –Rove seems to have given bad, conventional advice on how to turn the President around the polls , at least according to the aides who dished to WaPo (which is unlikely to endear them to …
From Dallas News
AirGATE Announces Major Development Contract
Posted by Administrator on Dec 27, 2005
Market Wire - DALLAS, TX — (MARKET WIRE) — 12/27/2005 — AirGATE Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the X-Change Corporation (OTC BB: XCHC ), announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. for Phase 2 of …
From Dallas News
How to Stop Spam
Posted by Administrator on Dec 16, 2005
Want to know how to stop spam? This might seem too simplistic, but here it goes; Eliminate free email accounts from Google (Gmail), MSN (hotmail), Yahoo Email, and all the other free email accounts offered by the big search engines, portal sites or other free email providers.
Why do I say this? If you look at Spam statistics and where in general most spam email originates from you’ll quickly see that majority of spam originates from a free email account. These are often referred to as throw-away or disposable email accounts. If this is the case, why do the major search engines, portals, or community sites offer free email? They want to entice and keep users coming back to their sites. Get something for nothing.
If you get right down to it, all the major players offering free email accounts are the entities that are most responsible for the spam issues facing Internet users today. So on one side, MSN, Yahoo, and Google provide some great services, but they also contribute greatly to the spam issue today.
This is certainly a huge topic for debate with many nuances that make for heated discussion, but when you get to the core of where spam primarily originates from, it is free email accounts.
What are your thoughts on stopping spam? Please share with our readers.
AOL Blocking Form Email
Posted by Administrator on Dec 16, 2005
Today I received word from my server admin that AOL is now blocking all form driven emails unless server owners / administrators bring servers and software into compliance with AOL standards.
For UNIX / Linux server owners, this requires in some cases major server reconfiguration which is not practical to your web server and software you may be running.
AOL is providing a white list service in which a server owner / administrator must meet certain requirements to be allowed to send newsletters and other mail through AOL’s network. Again, this is not practical in most cases.
This brings me to another point for small business owners that might use AOL for business purposes. DON’T USE AOL. If you own a domain name, use email addresses associated with your domain. It looks more professional and you’ll avoid in many cases bounced or dropped email issues you might have with an AOL account. If you don’t own a domain name, purchase one and use a commercial email address or account.
This brings me to another soap-box point; Want to get rid of SPAM? Go complain to Google, Yahoo, MSN and all the other providers of FREE email accounts. I’ll cover this in my next post.