Companies Paying to Get Through Spam Filter

That title should make your ears (or eyes) pop up, it did mine, but this doesn’t look to be something bad. One company (which should be watched, I think) but one company is teaming up with most of the large ISP’s including AOL, Comcast, Cox and others. They will be charging 1/4 of a penny for each email to safely make that email go through spam filters. The good part is all these companies will be checked and if one does get through that is spamming, they will be taken off the list.
I hope this works and doesn’t end up being no matter what the email is, if you pay you can be in the “group”

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Written by Richard Curry on June 6th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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Fighting Spam

For those that use Wordpress a must to fight spam on their blog is to enable the Akismet plugin. But all Akismet does is hold all the spam and allow you to delete it, it doesn’t help you fight spam. A new plugin that has been released now will help you fight it, by finding the worst offenders listed in Akismet, it will then ban those ip addresses that the spam is coming from. Using this plugin should cut down your spam by large amounts, but like all anti-spam software, always watch it closely the first few months, you may be stopping or deleting an important message.

grab the AkismetWorst Offenders Plugin at http://boakes.org/akismet-worst-offenders

Written by Richard Curry on June 4th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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