Press Release: Minister for Information Technology Parliament has passed a new law to fight the avalanche of spam clogging Kiwi inboxes, says Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe. The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 aims to prevent New Zealand becoming a haven for spammers by prohibiting unsolicited commercial electronic messages and requiring senders of commercial electronic…
Wow! This is a very very interesting web page that everyone should read to understand how spammers avoid the walls we put up to protect ourselves. I always wondered the purpose of the blank emails that come into my mail box. No subject heading, no from address, no content – whats the point silly spammers??…
The bill is about to go through its 3rd reading within “The House” which means Parliament. This looks like there is a very good chance the legislation will become law very soon. For more information click here.
It is not really 1 question but about 3. As the legislation draws nearer to becoming law more and more questions come to the surface. Below are questions our clients have asked us. At this stage we are researching with our law firm partners for any possible answers. Questions: If a Mobilize Mail client sends…
The New Zealand Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill draws closer to becoming law within New Zealand and all businesses who send email to their customers should now be looking at their current email practices. Why Should You Be Concerned About the Anti-Spam Law? Now you might not care or believe that the new anti-spam law will…
Well its Round 2 of the Unsolicited Electronic Messages Bill run through Parliament. I am very happy that they have removed the “Promotional Messages” concept which seemed like an absolute nightmare in regards to business understanding what constitutes a promotional email. Plus – how on earth would a government staff member be able to decide if a message was promotional?…
Found this interesting book on the net. I will order it as it looks very interesting. Here is the books description on Oreilly “The mounting onslaught of email pitches for porn, pills, and penis enlargement has some techno-pundits declaring that spam is on the verge of destroying the Internet. In Spam Kings, author and veteran…
It seems that ISP’s in the continuing war against SPAM are now using excessive bounce rates to identify spammers which has a negative impact on ethical email marketers. Excessive bounce rates are normally a sign of spammers with their unlimited capacity to generate email addresses which most are invalid thus generating large bounce rates. Because…
I have decided to create a series of articles on email marketing for small business after helping numerous of our small business clients with their email marketing strategies. The one common element I have found is that they are all scared to venture into this space for fear of being marked as spammer and losing…