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By: How To Identify Spam : How To Stop Spam

How To Identify Spam : How To Stop Spam — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:16:15 +0000

[...] hard way is what no one expect untill their doors are kicked down by the law enforcers – read this. If you want to market anything online, do not be stupid/uninformed – use an autoresponder. If [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 23:17:53 +0000

Yeah, it never ceases to amaze me when people send spam to IT people. If you can pick a segment of the population to NEVER, EVER piss off with spam, that would pretty much be the one.

By: Larry Kilbourne

Larry Kilbourne — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:30:56 +0000

Ben – Great advice, and it can’t be repeated (or re-printed) too often. I know of an instance where one of the world’s largest sellers of IT management software got blacklisted by ISPs for 90 days because they got careless with their unsubscribe (opt-out) list and ran afoul of the CAN-SPAM laws. That really hurt, and it was entirely preventable.

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:24:38 +0000

Most of the stuff in canspam is pretty obvious, but I had no clue about the mailing address requirement. Thanks for helping to educate about these things.