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How to Comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
article: Here's an up-to-date article by Ralph F. Wilson on how to comply with the "CAN SPAM Act of 2003."
2004 January 4 • business, e-mailSteady dose of realtime interruptions
article: E-mail is suffering. Indeed, it's very close to the breaking point where it will stop being useful, whether for personal communication or for company newsletters. [credit: InfoDesign]
2003 December 14 • e-mailHow to Get Rid of Spam
article: Tips for avoiding spam. [credit: Creative Commons: weblog]
2003 October 30 • business, e-mailEmailers Decry Lack of Guidelines
news item: In the absence of a practical set of guidelines that could staunch the flow of grassroots hatred of email marketing, a meeting of the International Association of Privacy Professionals came to consensus that email marketers need to abide by a stricter, self-enforced code of behavior. Worried that the masses will light up torches one night and come storming the email marketing castle with the help of restrictive legislation, Truste's president Fran Maier said, "We've just got to have some sort of coordinated approach. We have to be tougher." Washington Times reports. [credit: MarketingWonk]
2003 October 25 • business, e-mailSenate Passes No-Spam Registry Bill
news: The Senate unanimously passed a bill that would create the email equivalent of the National Do-Not-Call Registry, make illegal the practice of using deceptive email subject lines, like "Re: info you requested" and force email marketers to include a distinguishing tag in their subject lines, such as "ADV."
2003 October 24 • business, e-mailA Case for Publishing via RSS Feed and E-Mail
article: A case for publishing your website content by both e-mail and RSS feed, a rapidly growing technology to syndicate your headlines to subscribers and to other websites.
2003 October 24 • business, e-mailQuarter of People Surveyed Avoid Email
report: Results found that insufferable spam has driven 25 percent of those polled to avoid using email. Some of the respondents are concerned that wanted email will be lost in the clutter of unwanted email. And others just don't trust their messages, fearing that a spammer may co-opt email addresses of friends and family. Also see Survey Confirms It: Spam Sucks. [credit: MarketingWonk]