January 21, 2005
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
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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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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January 18, 2005
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
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
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 05, 2005
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)
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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)
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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