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SpamSlam™ will not make any difference to your screen
or your e-mail address. Your account and usage procedure would
be modified slightly.
Here's how typical e-mail works:
The sender composes a message and sends it to the receiver
of the message. The message travels through the Internet and
is relayed, or passed, from the originating computer of the
sender, through their ISP, then through many connected computers
before it arrives to the destination.
Sender ---> ISP's e-mail server ---> Connected computer
1 ---> Connected computer 2 ---> Receiver's ISP --->
Receiver's e-mail box.
So messages go from the sender, through the "Internet"
to the receiver.
Think of the way that mail is delivered normally in the Post
Office model. It works very similar, except the messages are
transferred by computers instead of postmen and postwomen
and post trucks.
spam:
spam is unsolicited e-mail, usually an advertisement of some
sort, that you did not request, but receive in your e-mail
box.
My mailbox for example, gets about 100 messages a month that
are just plain junk. Credit card solicitations, mortgage solicitations
etc.
If you get an e-mail from someone you don't personally know,
and they are trying to sell you something, then you too are
getting spam.
spam is bad. spam costs ISP's and Internet users money because
spam take away from the legitimate resources of the end users
well as ISP to handle the spammers junk mail. Furthermore
spam clutters mailboxes and in some cases causes frustration
to people.
Whereas with the post office, someone sending junk mail through
the US mail has paid the post office with a stamp, so the
post office's costs are covered, with e-mail the cost is incurred
by ISP's and subsequently passed down to subscribers in the
form of higher access fees.
How cyberM·I·N·D· is handling
spam:
1) We block e-mail from coming into our system from well
known spammers. These are people that have a spam problem.
These are people that have been identified by the Internet
community as having a spam problem. These are the people who
just continue spamming. If one of these people tried to send
you an e-mail, our system would block it from coming to you.
This is called RBL (or the Real-time Blackhole List). Our
servers maintain lists of ISPs with a spamming problem from
SpamCop and others, some
of which are commercial companies, some of which are not.
We then block these people from sending mail through our system.
BTW, some states have passed laws that consider it illegal
to send spam mail through computers anywhere in their state.
Someone who violates this law can actually be fined.
2) Offering the SpamSlam™ to further prevent spam. Even
with the RBL's list of "Bad people who won't stop spamming",
spammers are very creative and people get into it every day.
As a second line of defense we offer SpamSlam™. SpamSlam™
looks at each e-mail message sent to you and tries to determine
if it is spam. SpamSlam™ does this by applying the e-mail
message to a set of rules. For example if you receive an e-mail
message from someone that has a phrase "Make millions
in hours with my program, only $29.95", then that message
is tagged as spam ... because we have a rule to look for that
exact line in an e-mail message. SpamSlam™ is made up
of thousands of such rules. We have identified typical characteristics
of spam messages and put together rules based on these characteristics
to determine if a message is spam or not.
How SpamSlam™ works on your account:
When you request SpamSlam™ we install the software in
your account on our e-mail systems. E-mail that is sent to
you goes through SpamSlam™. If the message is not determined
to be spam, then it shows up in your inbox. If it is determined
to be spam then one of two things happen (based on your decision).
1) The message is deleted and you never see it.
2) The message is stored on our system in a special folder
called spamfolder (which is located under your account). You
can then review these messages to make sure that a legitimate
message was not marked as spam. You can access this spamfolder,
when SpamSlam™ is installed on your account, through
cyberMIND WebMail or your own e-mail if you know how to do
it.
Because of the way that SpamSlam™ is designed, it is
possible to tag messages that aren't really spam. While this
risk is very, very low, it is still possible. That is why
we recommend to use the spamfolder, instead of deleting the
messages outright.
The Bottom Line:
spam is bad because it ends up costing you money as well
as the annoyance of getting junk e-mail
We can help and are already helping with the blacklisting
of spammers and SpamSlam™.
You are already using the blacklisting without having to
do anything, if you wish to use SpamSlam™ then you will
get less junk mail than you do now.
Click
here to add SpamSlam™ to your account.
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