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Spammers consistently change tactics to try and stay ahead of the curve, and the latest is image-based spam. Because spam blockers have become so efficient at detecting text-based spam, no matter how many different ways they try to spell "mortgage" and "Viagra," the spammers have added a new weapon to their arsenal: the graphic file. By spamming people with a small .jpeg or .gif file with the embedded text, spam blockers usually let the letter go through. The problem is these image-based spam letters are considerably larger in size than text-based spam, which wreaks havoc on the e-mail servers, and they take longer to process. "This is the huge size increase in the size of spam. Even a small increase in image spam means a huge increase in the file size of spam being sent around," Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for antivirus vendor F-Prot, told internetnews.com.
How to be efficient with your e-mail
Mike Song, a co-author of The Hamster Revolution: How to Manage Your E-Mail Before It Manages You, says his research shows that many office workers are spending up to 2½ hours a day handling e-mail. A founding partner of Cohesive Knowledge Solutions, Song is an e-mail efficiency consultant. He and his partners find that most workers don't know how to screen and manage e-mail, particularly if they receive hundreds of messages a day. Companies should have good firewalls and spam blockers to keep out irrelevant stuff. But many in-boxes will overflow anyway. Song suggests using e-mail folders to sort messages. "If you belong to an association that sends e-mailed newsletters, create a folder for that association and send the newsletter immediately to that folder to read later," Song said, "You don't have to read everything when it comes in." Such a system requires paying attention to the subject line — assuming it's informative.
How Spam Works Posted By : Matt Garrett -
Spam involves sending unsolicited e-mail to many people, and is a very common practice today. It is not unusual for the average person to have 30% of his or her e-mail as spam, and there is a huge demand for new techniques to block spam including the existing methods, such as spam blockers, spam filters and the creation of e-mail whitelists. The most unfortunate aspect of how spam works is that it is quite simple. A spammer needs only collect a large number of web addresse.. .
Email, All-Star Dancers and Essay Conest for Kids
Manatees fans desiring a response to an email should turn off any filter or SPAM blocker, or accept info@spacecoaststadium.com as a legitimate email address. We answer 100% of our emails but many times we run into email blockers like EarthLink which requires us to register with them again and again just to send you a baseball camp registration form or a group photo from last night's game. Please either change your email filter settings to accept our email address or create a free email account on Yahoo! or gmail (Google)...they're free and will get you your response very quickly. If you don't receive a response from us it's because of your email settings blocking us. We don't have the hours in the day to keep registering with EarthLink and some of the other protection servcies. Former Brevard County Manatees Catcher 'Sweet' Lou Palmisano's fiance, Katherine, is one of three finalists in the Miami Heat's Dance Contest.
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