The Basics Of E-mails
Posted on June 14, 2008
It's a great tool to be in touch and to widen your business. However be wary of the fine line between spamming and being persistent when sending mails.
Spamming is frowned upon in most countries. If it is found by your e-mail account provider that you are guilty of this sacrilege, your account could be suspended and your outgoing e-mails could be blocked out by the the recipient's mail server, making your efforts futile.
Tip No matter how rude someone may be to you, or how offended may be by another's opinion, don't lower yourself to their level by stooping to obsceneties, threats or claims of self-importance. Always state your opinion clearly and concisely, without personalising an issue or resorting to name-calling.
A good definition of spamming would be-the use of any electronic communication medium to send unsolicited messages in bulk. But the term 'spam' means any commercially-oriented, unsolicited bulk mailing that is excessive in nature, and more importantly, undesired.
To the popular perception, the most common form of spam is the one delivered in e-mail as a form of commercial advertising. Nevertheless, things comparable to spamming for non-commercial purposes in media other than e-mail have also been recorded.
The spammers have developed have developed a variety of spamming techniques over the years. This can happen in each of the medias: e-mail spam, IM spam, Usenet newsgroup scam, Web search engine spam, weblogs spam, and mobile phone messaging spam.
It is imperative that you desist from all the above forms, and understand what could be termed as spamming before you decide to send out a mass mailer announcing to the world about your business-or even your landing on the WWW.
There is no entry barrier as far as spamming is concerned, but the volume of unsolicited e-mail produce other costs which are actually borne by the public in terms of lost productivity and fraud. And it is a burden for Internet service providers, which must add extra capacity to cope with the deluge.
Spamming is generally dealt with strictly by the internet authorities, and has been the subject of legislation in a number of jurisdictions, including the United States' CAN-SPAM Act of 2003.
Fact The term Spamming derives its name from the Monty Python Spam sketch about SPAM brand processed meat, is economically viable because advertisers have effectively no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing list.
Somnath Mitra
Somnath Mitra is a blogger writing about the various aspects of netprenureship on his two blogs mentioned in the write-up. http://yourwebpresence.blogspot.com/
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