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Users hate spam
Surveys show that most users dislike spam. A survey by www.chooseyourmail.com reports that over 97% of the respondents receive spam. Over 2/3rds of them would support laws making spamming a crime! The Gartner Group survey says that only 3% of users like spam. www.survey.net shows that 49.9% find it "excessively annoying." (Another 28.9% find it just "annoying.")
People want spam control
The survey by www.chooseyourmail.com shows that only 22% of people feel that their ISP has done enough about spam. Many e-mail users become frustrated daily when they check their e-mail box and they receive many messages that are unwanted. Many of these messages are from spamming organizations.
Source: www.declude.com
Spam/spamming: (n) Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail.
- To send unsolicited e-mail to.
- To send (a message) indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups.
Source: Dictionary.com
Your Internet offers software that can reject spam e-mail from reaching you. When an organization is reported for sending spam e-mails they can be placed on a blacklist. Anti-spamming systems reject mail from organizations that are blacklisted. Our software will not only reject e-mails from blacklisted organizations, but also e-mails that fail to meet certain criteria standard for internet mailing. When a person/organization sends you an e-mail and they are on a blacklist or fail to meet the previously mentioned criteria, we reject the message. We send a response notifying them that you did not receive the message and also a clarification of why it was rejected.
- This anti-spamming system does not guarantee that you will not receive spam e-mail.
- You may not receive e-mails from Internet e-mail addresses whose systems don't meet standard e-mailing guidelines. You may not have the ability to receive e-mails from people/organizations that e-mailed you previously.
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