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www.MailWasher.net Spam is every bit as unwelcome as circulars in your post box or telemarketers who call at meal times. Fortunately there are ways to decrease or eliminate the amount of spam you receive in your daily email.

Why is spam bad?

1. Theft of resources - The amount of time it takes to filter out unwanted email from legitimate email stops you doing other productive things.
2. The receiver pays - You pay for receiving spam, through your online charges and time.
3. You never asked for it - it is an invasion of your privacy.
4. It's garbage.
5. The offerings are most probably fraudulent or illegal.
Tips

The following are straight forward tips to help you overcome or prevent spam and viruses in your email:
1. Be private. Do not give out your email address in the first place. In many instances if you are required to give your email address in order to receive something off a website, give an email address that you have set up specifically to receive junk.

2. You can also set up a fake email address at such places as www.hotmail.com or www.yahoo.com , these email accounts are free.

3. Look for options to opt out of receiving promotional mailings when you have to give your address.

4. Treat every email you preview as being of a suspicious nature, many harmless looking emails with attachments may contain viruses. Many people succumbed to the "I love you" email that contained a virus. Use Mail Washer to preview your emails by double clicking on the email.

5. When you receive a forwarded email asking for help or money from someone, and in return you will have eternal good luck (or bad luck if you don't forward it). Do not forward it on, it is likely to be a hoax and is a great way for spammers to cultivate email addresses. Many virus warning emails are a hoax as well.

6. When forwarding emails to groups of people, send them via the BCC field, this shields their address from others. Ask others to send emails to you this way too.

7. Use the filters function to filter out unwanted emails that do, or do not meet certain criteria - further info on how to use the filters properly is below.

8. Keep your name off mailing lists, chat rooms and newsgroups by not giving out your correct address in the first place.

9. If your email address is on a website, ask your web designer to transform it in to a picture. Otherwise it is very easy for automated 'robots' to come and cultivate your email address and put it on to a mailing list. But if it is displayed as a picture then it won't be recognizable as an email address to the 'robot'.

10. Many spam messages have instructions at the bottom of the message asking you to reply to the message if you want to be removed from their mailing list. Don't do this, as it will only confirm that your address is valid and active and you will most likely be hit with more spam. Use Mail Washer to bounce the message back to the spammer so it looks as though your address is not valid.

11. Check the email address of the sender - do you recognize it? If not, then double click on the header in Mail Washer and you will see a preview of the email.

12. Watch out for fake headers. These are in the subject line and are commonly - 'Dear Friend.....' or 'Here's the information you requested.'

13. Never buy anything from a spammer's email, even if it is something you want as it is likely to be fraudulent.

14. You can complain to the spammers internet service provider by sending an email to abuse@[The domain in particular] or postmaster@[The domain in particular].

15. Don't reply to contests in your email, offers of free websites or send money to anti-spam organizations as it will most likely be a hoax.

16. Don't submit your address to Opt-out or removal lists as these are a hoax and you will end up getting more spam.

17. It is still advisable to have antivirus software installed on your computer. While you may be able to recognize an email with a strange attachment, a picture or word document may harbor a virus.

18. Use Mail Washer to delete any unwanted emails directly off your internet service providers server before you receive them.

19. Use the blacklist function in Mail Washer to instantly recognize previous spammers or to delete the message off the server instantly.

20. Finally, one option that will get rid of the spam (for a while) is to change your email address. It may take some time to notify others of your new address, but at least you will not get spam.

21. Filter out potentially harmful attachments (.vbs .exe etc) by adding a filter to recognize these files. This can be done by setting Mail Washer to recognize these files in the body of the message. ie The body of the message contains .vbs - further information below.

22. Set to automatically bounce blacklisted messages as soon as they are recognized by Mail Washer so you never have to see them.

23. Add your own existing blacklist quickly by adding to the blacklist text file where the Mail Washer program file resides.

24. Mail Washer works very well if you have a permanent connection to the internet, you can just set Mail Washer to check for new email every 10 minutes or so.



Web Site Copyright Protection from www.WebProNews.com

What are copyright laws? How do they affect my firm and how do they affect me? What are my responsibilities and why should I care? These are all questions that most developers and website owners have thought about at one item or another. This article deals with all of these questions and it will give you a starting point for your own firm’s copyright protection plan.

Copyright protection. Sometimes misapplied, sometimes misunderstood, sometimes disregarded but at all times a concern not to be neglected. If you own a website or if you are involved with designing websites, you need to know as much as possible about how copyright laws affect you. That’s because, if you aren’t properly protected, it could end up costing you a lot of time and a lot of money.

Although not intended as legal advice and not written as a legal guide, this article explains, in layman’s terms, your copyright responsibilities as a website owner, developer or programmer and how to protect yourself from possible future legal actions.

Copyright protection law is applicable to all websites on the Internet and they vary by country. Copyright laws apply to the written content of websites as well as the design elements, the images and the programming code contained within them.

International copyright law follows the International Copyright Protection agreements established by the Berne Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention (UCC). These agreements, between member countries, guarantee recognition of authors’ copyright protection in many countries at once as long as the work is published in two or more Berne Union countries within thirty days of its first publication.

Regardless if your website is global or not, you need to adhere to International Copyright Protection Standards to fully protect your firm and yourself. It is a very simple matter to adhere to these standards. All you have to do is have the Copyright Owner’s name and the date of first publication on the work along with the © symbol.

Your copyright notice should be placed on every page of your website, including your source code. It should be located in a place that gives reasonable notice of copyright and it should conform to the following structure:

Copyright © 2002 John Doe

The date of first publication is the date that the work was first electronically saved on disk or printed on hard copy. Copyright protection lasts until fifty years after the author’s death.

What are you protected from? It protects you from having a person, a firm or an entity copy part or all of your website content and claim ownership of it as their own.

What does it prevent us from doing? It prevents us from copying some portion of a copyrighted website, placing it on our website(s) and them claiming that it is ours.

By placing a copyright notice on your website, you are declaring that you have express permission to use all material or that you actually own all material contained within your site. This includes all images, sound, programming code, logos, written material and design. If you copy anything from a website that you do not own (even page layout design) and then publish it on a website that you do own, you are committing copyright infringement.

Material found on the web may be copied freely only if the information is created by the federal government (Public Domain), if the copyright has expired or if the copyright has been abandoned.

You must remember that images (including graphics, logos and photos), writing, text, HTML, programming code, Java script, Midi’s etc. that you are given permission to use or display does not mean that you can claim copyright to it. Permission does not make you the owner.

Depending upon the owner, the permission terms may vary. Whatever the case, it is important to include text on the same page as the material being loaned is used that specifies who the real owner is and that the material is being used by permission.

"Shareware" and "Free Graphics" are provided on some websites and they encourage you to use them on your website freely. What are your copyright responsibilities? You are being allowed to use this material free if you adhere to the owner’s conditions. Make sure that you understand these conditions and that you apply them when using this material on your website. Do not claim copyright ownership protection on the page(s) displaying this material without making sure to claim permission for their use.

Take caution that you do not claim "Public Domain" and "Fair Use" materials as your own by placing your copyright notice on pages that contain Fair Use and shared materials. Public Domain is information published by the government and it is freely available to the public. Fair Use is utilization of copyrighted material, without the permission of the owner, for the purposes of news, reporting, research, education and /or parody. Use of such material for any other purpose is not Fair Use and it remains protected under Copyright Protection laws. Make sure that you do not claim copyright ownership for either.

As a final assurance that your copyrighted materials are protected, your copyright can be registered with the United States Copyright Office. The fee is $30 and you will have to register there if you ever decide to claim copyright infringement. You can also find information about current copyright protection laws at the United States Copyright Office website (see below).

Another alternative is to place your material on hardcopy or portable disk, place it in an envelope, seal it and then mail it to yourself. Have the mailing certified and you will have proof that you authored the material on or before the post-marked date. Make sure not to open the envelope after you have received it. Place it unopened in a plastic bag and store it for future use.



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No gimmicks here, it is so easy to set up and use that you'll be managing your email like a pro in seconds. It can even be used as an effective privacy tool. I think you will find this to be the easiest, most effective way to manage your incoming emails. You will be amazed at how quickly you will like using MailWasher.

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OVERTURE - Is this the next Yahoo? or Google? See my notes, below!

Overture, formerly GoTo, is the Internet's leading Pay-For-Performance search provider. The company was created in 1997 in response to three fundamental problems it perceived with Internet search, including poor quality results, random ordering of listings and a weak advertising revenue model. Overture solves these problems by working directly with businesses to ensure relevant and up-to-date listings, and by creating a real-time market for consumer attention based on advertiser bidding. In addition, Overture's performance-based model has proven to be extremely effective in monetizing Internet search and has emerged as the next frontier in online advertising.

Overture generates high quality search results by enabling advertisers to bid for placement based on relevant keywords. This allows businesses to reach potential customers at the very time they are searching for products and services. These results are then distributed across the Internet to some of the world's most popular and well-known Web sites. More info!

Listing your site within Overture's search results is the most cost-effective way to reach lots of targeted customers. You select the search terms that are relevant to your site, and choose how much to pay when customers click on your listings*. The higher you bid, the higher your site appears in our search results.

***Take your Pay-For-Performance™ advertising to the next level with Overture Premium Listings. Premium Listings, the top three Overture™ results for any keyword, give you what no one else can - exposure to 85% of all active Internet users by listing you on leading Web sites, such as Yahoo!, America Online, MSN, Lycos, AltaVista and many others! at the top of the list!!!

Rich's Note: - Just try a search below, and see the results and how the bidding works. Use a word or better yet, a phrase that describes your site. See how much the bid is! ... Let's look at an example! Do a search for "web design nc" ... You will see that I come up #1 and I am paying only $.08 per click.

Now the Best part! - Do the same search on Yahoo, AOL Search, MSN, or AltaVista. See where my listing is!!! Right at the top!! Hmmmm? Very interesting!!!!! More Info!

Call me - Let's get your site rated high , HIGH , HIGHER! , HIGHEST!









336-408-9075
Rich@RichsWebDesign.com


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