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January 24, 2005
Blog Search Engines
Seems like this is a useful list of all of the blog search engines that you can list to:
http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html
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January 23, 2005
Interesting Virtual Warehouse and Drop Ship Management Solution
Here is an interesting drop ship management company with great oSCommerce solution.
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January 21, 2005
27% of Web Users Read Blogs
From a recent Yahoo Article:
According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 27 percent of adults who go online in the United States read blogs. And blogs have greater impact because their readers tend to be policy makers and other influencers of public opinion, media experts say. According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 27 percent of adults who go online in the United States read blogs. And blogs have greater impact because their readers tend to be policy makers and other influencers of public opinion, media experts say.
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200 Known Spam Operations responsible for 80% of your spam.
So why can't we find these 200 companies?
http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/
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Spammer Sues someone They Spammed
What is wrong with this picture. A spammer sends out millions of emails claiming 'Get Rich Quick' and 'Someone Wants to Date You', get's booted from all of their ISPs and then sues the person that reported him. The amazing thing is that it may be a legitimate suit based on the CAN-SPAM act:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=10&u=/pcworld/20050121/tc_pcworld/119368
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January 20, 2005
Good CNET Article about TrackBack Pings
Here is a good summary of TrackBack Pings and how they work. I 'Pinged' them when I wrote this and now they will show that I mentioned their article:
http://news.com.com/TrackBack+and+Pingback+supported+by+CNET+News.com/2030-9368_3-5462850.html
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CAN-SPAM Act - Full Legislation in PDF
Here is the full CAN-SPAM act as it came from Congress in 2003. If you really want to be CAN-SPAM compliant have your legal team review this:
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How to Sell a Book Online
How do you sell a book online?
If we knew the answer to that, publishers would be scrambling for cover. So far, the only way we can find is to list it on Amazon, and even that is difficult and does not seem to yield any good, consistent results.
Here is a blog entry about publishing your own book:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/lewis/2005/01/20.html#a244
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eBay Top Sellers List - Selling Smart Based on Trends
Perhaps one of the best tools - not just for eBay Sellers but for anyone selling something online. Knowing what is in demand is half the battle.
eBay Publishes a report that ranks each category:
http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf
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January 19, 2005
Yes you can Spam Act
Remember the good old days, way back in December of 2003? Back then, when spammers told you they had the legal right to send you their junk e-mail, at least you knew it was a lie. Now, with enactment of the "Yes, You Can Spam Act," the spammer might well be telling the truth. http://www.gripe2ed.com/scoop/story/2004/3/18/91233/9115
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Who wants Spam?
But who really wants SPAM? Many of us get thousands of spam messages a day. Some up to a staggering 250,000 spam messages each day! “So, it's not surprising that people need relief -- they want to do whatever they can to stop spam.
Unfortunately, many of us now spend so much time filtering and deleting spam that our biggest concern has become that we not lose messages we really want. Even personal communication and one-on-one email is now regularly being filtered at the server level. In fact, according to an article in Time Magazine, between 40% to 70% of all email is currently getting blocked by spam filters! That means recipients never have a chance to read it.” http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/
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Interview with eBay PR over Fee Increase
FeeBay: Do you know what this means?
so here is my second installment in PR madness. writing a story about eBay fee increase -- called Hani Durzy, a spokesman for eBay.
Irina: Hi Hani [saying that was wierd, since i'm not married to him]. Can you tell me about the fee increases on eBay?
Durzy: Let's not characterize this as a fee increase accross the board. Some fees were lowered and some were increased.
Irina: Oh, can we talk about which ones were lowered and which ones were raised?
Durzy: I can't go into every detail! That information is on our website. You really need to look over that. In fact, it's unprofessional of you to call me before you have familiarized yourself with the infor.....
Irina: Mr. Durzy. I HAVE read the information and I'm asking you anyway. That's how I usually conduct interviews.
Durzy. Well. So let's not call it an accross-the-board increase.
Irina: OK. Can we talk about the eBay members who are frustrated with the fees? The ones that were increased, not the ones that were decreased.
Durzy: I think most ebay users are evaluating the price changes to see how they will impact their businesses.
Irina: Um, OK. Um. [debating if I should follow up on that "answer"] How did eBay decide on the increase.
Durzy: We carefully valuate our pricing structure from time to time. We believe these price changes are the right thing to do for the vibrancy of the market place.
Irina: How do you define vibrancy?
Durzy: The market place is an organic ever-changing thing and it works best when sellers are selling and buyers are buying.
Irina: OK. How do you define "vibrancy" and how will the price changes affect the "vibrancy?"
Durzy: Fee changes create changes by affecting certain behaviors in the market place to create the effect of more items selling more often. We believe these price changes are what is needed to continue that vibrancy.
Irina: How do fee changes create the effect of more items selling more often?
Durzy: Listen, I'm not going into details here. In general, we believe that the changes we have made will help the continued success of the market place -- for the community.
http://heresmybyline.typepad.com/irina/2005/01/feebay_do_you_k.html
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January 18, 2005
Google Gets Gruff over Click Fraud - CNET
Google filed a lawsuit against an Internet operation that it claims systematically clicked on text ads to defraud its advertising network.
The case, filed Nov. 15 in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County in California, is among the first civil lawsuits to relate to click fraud. The lawsuit charges that Texas-based Auctions Expert International signed up to display Google's targeted text advertising on its Web site, and then fraudulently clicked on the ads to profit from its pay-per-click system.
http://news.com.com/Google+gets+gruff+over+click+fraud/2100-1024_3-5463243.html
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Exposing Click Fraud - CNET Article
The practice, known as "click fraud," began in the early days of the Internet's mainstream popularity with programs that automatically surfed Web sites to increase traffic figures. This led companies to develop policing technologies touted as antidotes to the problem. But some marketing executives estimate that up to 20 percent of fees in certain advertising categories continue to be based on nonexistent consumers in today's search industry.
http://news.com.com/Exposing+click+fraud/2100-1024_3-5273078.html
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eBay Sellers React to Fee Increases
eBay Sellers React Strongly Against Fee Increase
By Ina Steiner
www.auctionbytes.com
January 18, 2005
eBay announced last week a change in its seller fee structure, including increased fees on eBay Stores and certain features and categories to take effect February 18 (http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y05/m01/i12/s00). In the days following the announcement, sellers have reacted strongly against the increase and have circulated an online petition and launched protest auctions. Of most concern to sellers seemed to be the rate of the increase.
Some sellers say they have closed their eBay Stores, although no exact numbers are available. eBay reported it had 224,000 Stores worldwide at the end of the third quarter 2004 (September 30, 2004); and of those, 143,000 were hosted on the U.S. site. eBay also reported it had acquired 20.3 million new Stores listings during the third quarter, versus 4.1 million new Stores listings in the third quarter of 2003.
The announcement of increased fees has angered sellers of all sizes. The Professional eBay Seller's Alliance (PESA) issued a statement on Monday to express their dismay. The group says it is composed of 600 of eBay's largest sellers accounting for over $1 billion in annual eBay sales. The statement read in part:
Overall, our members are reporting that they will pay up to 22% more to eBay than before the increase. That's unprecedented, and will have broad marketplace implications.
The history and spirit of the eBay marketplace is one of partnership between buyers, sellers and eBay. Historically, eBay has benefited only when buyers and sellers have benefited.
Sadly, this price increase flies in the face of that partnership, siphoning more and more value away from sellers and away from buyers (when prices or shipping charges increase to cover the fees), and towards eBay itself. This is at time when large sellers that comprise PESA's membership have only seen a degradation of the quality of the marketplace, rather than any substantive investments in its improvement. Sadly, this will inhibit, rather than nourish the growth of the eBay marketplace. While this may increase eBay revenue for a quarter or two, it certainly does not bode well for eBay's growth.
Anecdotally, we already see eBay's top sellers beginning to focus their attention on other channels based on this and other problems. We hope to have data on this soon.
PESA's Spring Summit to be held in March will include sessions on multi-channel selling, and PESA founder Joe Cortese said there has been an increase in registrations over the past week.
As sellers try to discuss ways to cope with the impact of fees on their business, including exploring alternative marketplaces, some report they have been sent warnings or suspended from eBay's discussion boards. Accusations of forum censorship by eBay are not new.
One group of users formed a Yahoo Group, in one member's words, "so that us disgruntled sellers may voice our opinion without being censored or banned from ebay discussion boards. A lot of us have been warned, had our posts deleted and have been suspended." The group named itself GreedBay, and had fewer than 300 members as of Monday. Discussions included posts on ways to cope, including having members send postcards to eBay CEO Meg Whitman, and opinions about other auction sites. In this group and on other online auction discussion boards, it seems there is no consensus on which marketplace is a viable alternative to eBay.
There's also no doubt from reading letters and online posts that sellers are taking the fee hike personally.
Carol Green of Houston, Missouri wrote, "This situation is a financial death knell for many cottage industry folks and when America is at war, we didn't need Ebay potentially destabilizing the economy - especially when the "little guy", many of whom the husbands are out fighting in Iraq for us, are hit the worst."
Another seller who wished to remain anonymous wrote, "The fact that eBay took a price increase is surely not an issue. What is an issue is the RATE of increase which, to a business person who has spent several years developing an auction based business predicated on specific cost parameters, is unconscionable. It is the height of arrogance to believe they can pull off such a stunt with no competitive repercussion...which indeed will probably be the case. I for one am ready for some serious competition...I'll be the first one to post."
Some sellers speculate eBay's next bombshell move may be to institute surcharge for 7-day listings. It already charges sellers an extra fee to list a 10-day auction.
An online petition protesting the fees has been circulating since last week (http://www.petitiononline.com/ebayfee/petition.html). One line of the petition letter reads, "We protest that ebay should reconsider the fee increase entirely, but if not possible, please do think about not increasing the fees as much (some fees have double...or even tripled!)."
As of Monday evening, the petition showed 16,284 online "signatures."
eBay will release last quarter's earnings on Wednesday. Bloomberg reported Monday that eBay's fourth quarter net income could be the company's biggest increase in six quarters. If true, it could further fan the flames already burning in some eBay sellers.
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HTML Email vs Text Email Deliverablity
Aweber.com is reporting that return rates for html vs text email vary signficantly. Based on a 2004 study where they tested over 1,000,000 emails, aweber found that HTML emails got returned by ISPs on average of 2.3% while text based emails were returned 1.15%.
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One third pursue Spam offer
“Surprisingly, despite the anger and skepticism survey respondents voice toward spam, one-third report pursuing an offer made in a spam message by clicking on a link to find further information. And 7 percent had actually ordered a product or service that was offered in an unsolicited e-mail. Pew said it didn't collect enough data to make broad assumptions on those figures. It theorizes that many of those purchases through spam were made before the consumer had a lot of e-mail experience. But it notes that some bulk e-mailers claim that a positive response rate of even 0.001 percent can be profitable. The Pew report suggests a lot of money is still being made. http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend23_20031023.htm
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One-third pursue spam offer.
“Surprisingly, despite the anger and skepticism survey respondents voice toward spam, one-third report pursuing an offer made in a spam message by clicking on a link to find further information. And 7 percent had actually ordered a product or service that was offered in an unsolicited e-mail. Pew said it didn't collect enough data to make broad assumptions on those figures. It theorizes that many of those purchases through spam were made before the consumer had a lot of e-mail experience. But it notes that some bulk e-mailers claim that a positive response rate of even 0.001 percent can be profitable. The Pew report suggests a lot of money is still being made. http://www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend23_20031023.htm
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Spam Open Rate
What's a typical open rate? A marketing professionals survey recently showed an industry open rate average of less than 20%, and many marketers report that open rates are declining. B2B open rates, however, are in the 37% rate with many B2B marketers reporting rates of 30% or higher. http://www.optinnews.com/email_marketing_open_rates.html
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January 17, 2005
What is the CAN-SPAM Law?
The CAN-SPAM law refers specifically to the Federal Senate Bill 877, was signed into Law by President Bush in December of 2003.
The primary purpose of the CAN-SPAM law is to put some regulations in place around email marketing. One point I did not realize was that ISPs are required to accept CAN-SPAM compliant email.
The basic points of the CAN-SPAM law are:
1. All information must be accurate (from address, subject line, body)
2. There must be a way for the recipient to opt-out permanently (this must be done within 10 days of the request)
3. There must include a physical address
4. If the email is an advertisment it must be clearly marked that it is an advertisment
5. Sexual orientated material must be clearly marked in the subject line
Several other obvious guidelines - like masking where you are sending an email from or trying to 'guess' email addresses.
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January 15, 2005
Using Blogs to Get Top Rankings in Search Engines
Never Before has it been easier to create, manage and optimize a website. Platforms like MovableType make it so easy to create and publish your own blog. Blogs, because of their content rich nature and clean code seem to rank very well in engines like Google. Furthermore, creating a series of back-links to a blog creates even better rankings. In the first week of testing we were able to get first rank on google for 'spam conversion'.
Trying to get number one rank for 'email marketing research'. Checking to see if putting search results in body of blog does anything:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=email+marketing+research&btnG=Search
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Is My Email Can-Spam Compliant?
I was trying to determine what it meant to be bonded and I found this site:
http://senderid.espcoalition.org/
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What is the Can-Spam Act?
10 Things You Should Know About
CAN-SPAM!
ARE YOU CAN-SPAM COMPLIANT?
1. CAN-SPAM applies only to commercial email.
2. CAN-SPAM applies to email for which a primary purpose is to feature your goods, services, or content even if you do not send the email yourself; however...
3. CAN-SPAM does not apply to third-party advertisers who advertise in your mailings.
4. CAN-SPAM can apply to email sent out by your affiliates on your behalf; however...
5. CAN-SPAM will not apply to email sent out by your affiliates on your behalf unless you know, or should know, that the email is being sent in violation of CAN-SPAM and you stand to gain from it financially, and you don't try to stop it.
6. CAN-SPAM requires that all information in your email headers and body be true, accurate, and not misleading.
7. CAN-SPAM requires you to provide a fully-functioning means of return Internetbased communication for the purpose of the recipient opting-out of your mailings.
8. CAN-SPAM requires you to honor those opt-out requests, and to immediately cease sharing the user's address even with previously agreed-to partners.
9. CAN-SPAM does not require that you use confirmed opt-in for your mailings, however it is one of the best defenses against an accusation of CAN-SPAM violation.
10. CAN-SPAM does not require ISPs to accept email which is CAN-SPAM compliant. In fact, ISPs are specifically exempted from claims that they must accept email if it complies with CAN-SPAM.
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January 14, 2005
Funny Site of the Week
Pretty much the best bulldog site on the web!
http://www.daffodilphotos.com/default.htm
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eBay Acquires Ecommerce Company
http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y05/m01/i14/s01
eBay will acquire the technology assets of Kurant, it announced Thursday.
Kurant distributes its StoreSense ecommerce service through a network of resellers. A "Master Reseller" called NeoVerve lists fees for StoreSense starting at $19.95/month for a starter edition all the way up to $319.95 for an Elite version of StoreSense Pro Plus (http://www.neoverve.com/ecommerce/storesense_pricing.html). In April, Kurant's StoreSense offering won PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1555276,00.asp).
News of the technology acquisition came a day after eBay announced a fee hike of its own Stores offering (http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y05/m01/i12/s00). eBay, the 800-pound gorilla in the online-auction space, offers sellers auction and fixed-price formats and also offers eBay Stores, where sellers can load inventory at fixed prices indefinitely. eBay announced Wednesday it was increasing the monthly fee and commission on Store items effective February 18.
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Florida has not enacted spam legislation
Florida has not enacted spam legislation, although a Florida bar rule (Fla. R.P.C. 4-7.6(c)(3)) requires attorneys who advertise via unsolicited e-mail to put "legal advertisement" in the subject line. http://www.spamlaws.com/eu.html
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Spam Laws
The average spam conversion rate is thought to be around 0.00036%, the penalties if caught are up to 5 years in jail and there are several groups throughout the whole world that enforce this law such as: APCAUCE- Asia-Pacific Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email and EuroCAUCE - Fighting European Spam. So why do they bother? http://www.spamlaws.com/eu.html
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Tips to stop Spam
7 Tips to Help You Reduce or Stop Spam
1. Use a separate email address
2. Consider acquiring multiple email addresses for different purposes.
3. You can subscribe to services online that provide you with disposable addresses
4. Remove your email address from your website.
5. NEVER buy anything from a company that spams.
6. Filter your email.
7. Consider subscribing to a spam prevention service.
http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/
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January 13, 2005
Spam Laws
The average spam conversion rate is thought to be around 0.00036%, the penalties if caught are up to 5 years in jail and there are several groups throughout the whole world that enforce this law such as: APCAUCE- Asia-Pacific Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email and EuroCAUCE - Fighting European Spam. So why do they bother? http://www.spamlaws.com/eu.html
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Where spam comes from.
According to a research by Commtouch, quoted by NYT, China, South Korea, United States, Russia and Brazil generate 99% of spam. 30% of spam e-mails pitch drugs, 9% - mortgages, 7% - significant improvements in sexual health. Overwhelming amount of spam is written in English, with 5.77% using other languages.
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January 10, 2005
i58Projects.Org - Helping Children around the World
This is our non-profit organization that helps the children of India:
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January 06, 2005
Infopia's New Site
Infopia has a great new site:
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January 05, 2005
% of Spam to emails sent
"Spam accounts for 45% of all e-mails, or 15 billion messages every day, and costs business world-wide a total of $20 billion a year in lost productivity and technology expenses, according to the Radicati Group, a market research firm in Palo Alto, CA. --Wall Street Journal, August 2003 http://www.barracudanetworks.com/resources/spam_cost.php
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The SPAM Sketch
The SPAM Sketch
from The Final Rip Off
Mr. Bun: Morning.
Waitress: Morning.
Mr. Bun: Well, what you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam, tomato and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; (Vikings start singing in background) spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam.
Vikings: Spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, lovely spam.
Waitress: (cont) or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got much spam in it.
Mrs. Bun: I don't want any spam!
Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it.
Mr. Bun: It hasn't got as much spam in it as spam, egg, sausage and spam has it?
Mrs. Bun: (over Vikings starting again) Could you do me egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Ech!
Mrs. Bun: What do you mean ech! I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam....etc
Waitress: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Bloody vikings. You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
Mr. Bun: Shh dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam. (starts Vikings off again)
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam...etc
Waitress: Shut up! Baked beans are off.
Mr. Bun: Well, can I have her spam instead of the baked beans?
Waitress: You mean spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam?
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam...etc...spam, spam, spam! (in harmony)
Home | Virtual Portfolio | Comedy Corner | Monty Python
http://www.ironworks.com/comedy/python/spam.htm
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Term "Spam"
Use of the term "spam" was adopted as a result of the Monty Python skit in which our SPAM meat product was featured. In this skit, a group of Vikings sang a chorus of "spam, spam, spam . . . " in an increasing crescendo, drowning out other conversation. Hence, the analogy applied because UCE was drowning out normal discourse on the Internet. http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm
Posted by marketplacesna at 01:23 PM
January 04, 2005
Spam conversion Rate
The average spam conversion rate is thought to be around 0.00036%, the penalties if caught are up to 5 years in jail and there are several groups throughout the whole world that enforce this law such as: APCAUCE- Asia-Pacific Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email and EuroCAUCE - Fighting European Spam. So why do they bother? http://www.spamlaws.com/eu.html
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Countries that generate Spam
According to a research by Commtouch, quoted by NYT, China, South Korea, United States, Russia and Brazil generate 99% of spam. 30% of spam e-mails pitch drugs, 9% - mortgages, 7% - significant improvements in sexual health. Overwhelming amount of spam is written in English, with 5.77% using other languages. http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P1214
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Spam % of email
"Spam accounts for 45% of all e-mails, or 15 billion messages every day, and costs business world-wide a total of $20 billion a year in lost productivity and technology expenses, according to the Radicati Group, a market research firm in Palo Alto, CA. --Wall Street Journal, August 2003 http://www.barracudanetworks.com/resources/spam_cost.php
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Spam Sketch
The SPAM Sketch
from The Final Rip Off
Mr. Bun: Morning.
Waitress: Morning.
Mr. Bun: Well, what you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam, tomato and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; (Vikings start singing in background) spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam.
Vikings: Spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, lovely spam.
Waitress: (cont) or Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.
Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got much spam in it.
Mrs. Bun: I don't want any spam!
Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it.
Mr. Bun: It hasn't got as much spam in it as spam, egg, sausage and spam has it?
Mrs. Bun: (over Vikings starting again) Could you do me egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Ech!
Mrs. Bun: What do you mean ech! I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam....etc
Waitress: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Bloody vikings. You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
Mr. Bun: Shh dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam. (starts Vikings off again)
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam...etc
Waitress: Shut up! Baked beans are off.
Mr. Bun: Well, can I have her spam instead of the baked beans?
Waitress: You mean spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam?
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam...etc...spam, spam, spam! (in harmony)
Home | Virtual Portfolio | Comedy Corner | Monty Python
http://www.ironworks.com/comedy/python/spam.htm
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Term "Spam"
Use of the term "spam" was adopted as a result of the Monty Python skit in which our SPAM meat product was featured. In this skit, a group of Vikings sang a chorus of "spam, spam, spam . . . " in an increasing crescendo, drowning out other conversation. Hence, the analogy applied because UCE was drowning out normal discourse on the Internet. http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm
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January 03, 2005
AuctionBytes Daily News Feed
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Great Outsourced Customer Service Company
Found this company - not bad solution for outsourced customer service:
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