So you don’t want SPAM
There is a plethora of unwanted email newsletter space and lots of chatter surrounding "birthday of spam"
Amongst all of the moaning, complaining and waffle being written, it’s so obvious that the complainers have chosen, yes chosen, to be victims of spam. They wallow in their pity and mouth off about how horrible it is and how much time it takes up and that there is little that can be done to stop it.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say this is utter diatribe.
I’ve just checked my email account traffic for the past week
- My 15 stand alone email accounts (POP3) had 2 spam messages.
- Gmail Account 1 had 125 spam messages including 5 Google alert emails (Go figure … Google sends mail that it classes as spam!)
- Gmail Account 2 had 195 spam messages all of which were spam
I don’t use any filtering programs on my desktop nor do I use Spam Assassin or other solution on my web server.
Yeah I’m bragging, but this is pretty much a normal week for me as I use the Spam Strategies outlined in the guide..
How do I do it? I use the Spam Strategy Guide
Fixing the blame on Gary Thuerk for sending the first spam email and fixing the blame on all the others who send the unwanted email you receive is not, and never will make one iota of difference to the spam in your inbox. That’s a victim mentality approach.
Action: Fixing the problem is about taking responsibility for how you manage your email addresses and the Spam Strategy Guide is a front line to preventing spam ending up in your inbox.
2 Responses to “So you don’t want SPAM”
By DollarDemon on Aug 29, 2008 | Reply
Id LOVE to see the end of spam - it will happen one way only - by convincing people to stop buying from spam emails!
Until that day books such as yours will be necessary(and good luck with it) but I would love to see a time when the spam just wasn’t being sent.
I asked a group of friends over dinner a few weeks back how many of them had clicked on a link in a spam email to find out more about a product … ALL of them had
So to all your readers who have an issue with spam, remember to educate your friends and family … if there wasn’t a profit in it for them, people would not spam.
By Pink Boutique on Nov 15, 2008 | Reply
Like you I don’t get any spam in my stand alone email accounts. I have a yahoo email that gets 50 a day. Maybe we should end the free email services to kill spam.