Apple’s new version of their webmail service looks great but unfortunately it seems to kill your CSS! Have a read of this review and also read the comments as a possible solution is provided. Click here
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eCard Update
At this time of year a lot of businesses send eCards (email versions of Christmas cards) to their clients and prospects. eCards sometimes have the Christmas wishes accompanied with an image of Christmas usually embedded within the email for maximum effect. One of the reasons businesses use email service providers such as Mobilize Mail is…
Image Spam on Increase
Have you noticed an increase in the amount of image based spam you receiving? I bet you have run up your ISP and demanded that they fix the problem pronto. Well it really is not that simple anymore. You see spammers are getting real smart these days and buying very advanced software from underground software…
New Zealand ISP’s Attack Email SPAM
Fighting email spam is a continuous war and New Zealand Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) are stepping up the fight with new spam-fighting systems. TelstraClear recently announced it had spent $3.5 million on spam filtering technology. Earlier in the month (November) ihug customers were demanding to know why they were having problems with their email service….
Relief for the poor battered email marketer
There maybe some relief on the horizon for the poor battered email marketer who spends half their life rigorously following opt-in best practices. We also know about the menace of the “this is spam” button provided by many large ISPs including AOL, Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail. We have also seen the studies and gasped at…
Microsoft and Non Standard Characters
If you like to create your email message content in Microsoft Word please read on as you may have some of your subscribers contacting you about funny characters in your message. It seems that Microsoft Word automatically changes straight quotation marks to curly (smart or typographer’s) quotes as you type. This is fine if you…
30% of your recipients don’t even know your images are missing
This will interest you all. A very interesting study has been completed and the results are amazing! The Epsilon Interactive report stated that 69% of email users know how to activate suppressed images, and 57% at least sometimes activate images in promotional messages from senders they buy from or have accounts with, or from senders…
SPAM Images
Many of you might already know the reason why spammers are now using images for their messages but just in case you don’t have a read of this article. Click here
United States cited as top spam nation
“The United States and China remained atop the list of countries spewing spam for the third quarter, UK-based security vendor Sophos said Monday, and the former had the dubious honour of extending its lead in the battle for spam share. According to Sophos, servers in the US sent 21.6 percent of the world’s spam during…
$6.5m fine for sending spam email
Finally! The Aussie government gets one of the top 200 spammers! I hope they keep on hitting him until he disappears of the face of this planet. Saturday October 28, 2006 PERTH – A Perth-based company has been fined A$5.5 million ($6.5 million) for sending millions of unsolicited emails, with a judge labelling the spam…