The EVOLUTION Of List Building
When the Internet first exploded into people's homes back in the 1980's and 1990's, it was inevitable that someone would figure out how to use it for commercial gain. Being a capitalistic country, this was expected. And the results have gone beyond anyone's wildest imaginings! The Internet is supporting everything from small home-based businesses to huge international corporations. So how can you use this awesome power to increase your sales?In the beginning, you really had two methods of getting potential customers to your website. Either they found your website on a search engine, or they clicked on a banner on a site they were already visiting. The search engine

Web Strategies For Small Business Owners In 2007
The year 2007 is round the corner and companies are getting ready to implement new strategies for their businesses. If your website is not working to support your business in terms of its sales, lead generation, brand building efforts etc, it’s still not too late to create a strategy that supports and facilitates your short, medium and long-term business objectives.1. Redefine your web strategy A web-strategy should be simple and focused. For example, if you are a small service based organization, your website should be able to generate leads, provide online tools, and promote you as an expert in your industry. If you are a retailer, you should be able to

Classic Scam
Some time ago I registered at some (very popular) forum and a day after I received a letter from a forum member with a "business offer". I think this "offer" is a classical scam. But judge for yourself.In the letter it was written:“Good day Dear One, Greetings and How are you today, I am Michael D* I would like you to permit me to apply through this medium for your co-operation and to secure an opportunity to invest and do joint relationship and business with you in your country. I have a substantial capital I honourably Inherited from my late father…”. And so on…In short, the Sender wrote:- He has money.- The money is legitimately made.e to you a way to nearly eliminate all spam from your organization. As long as you are running Exchange that is.

First so that you have a better understanding how this works I'm going to tell you a little about spammers and how they evade detection. There are actually a couple of methods. Either they are running their own server and just sending spam from it, this is highly unlikely. Or they could be relaying off of some poor system administrator who doesn't know how to disable his SMTP server from being an open relay, most common. Lastly they could just be using a server on the net that actively allows people to send emails via SMTP anonymously and freely.

Well systems engineers out there have gotten smart and created what today is called Spam blacklists. A list can be found of all the spam blacklists on google directory.Basically if your server has been caught sending spam you will get added to this list. You may not even know it! However, you will soon start to tell when people come up to you "Hey I just tried to send email to John Doe and it wouldn't go through." Most likely you are on one of these blacklists. You can search for your email server's ip address from a spam database lookup like the one found on DNS Stuff.

But now to the fun stuff. Exchange allows you to filter who can connect to your server via SMTP. It's called connection filtering. And it's very easy to configure. This can literally cut down on about 98% of your spam.

First thing you need to do is go to the Message Delivery properties

ome poor system administrator who doesn't know how to disable his SMTP server from being an open relay, most common. Lastly they could just be using a server on the net that actively allows people to send emails via SMTP anonymously and freely.

Well systems engineers out there have gotten smart and created what today is called Spam blacklists. A list can be found of all the spam blacklists on google directory.Basically if your server has been caught sending spam you will get added to this list. You may not even know it! However, you will soon start to tell when people come up to you "Hey I just tried to send email to John Doe and it wouldn't go through." Most likely you are on one of these blacklists. You can search for your email server's ip address from a spam database lookup like the one found on DNS Stuff.

But now to the fun stuff. Exchange allows you to filter who can connect to your server via SMTP. It's called connection filtering. And it's very easy to configure. This can literally cut down on about 98% of your spam.

First thing you need to do is go to the Message Delivery properties

p://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Blacklists/">google directory.Basically if your server has been caught sending spam you will get added to this list. You may not even know it! However, you will soon start to tell when people come up to you "Hey I just tried to send email to John Doe and it wouldn't go through." Most likely you are on one of these blacklists. You can search for your email server's ip address from a spam database lookup like the one found on DNS Stuff.

But now to the fun stuff. Exchange allows you to filter who can connect to your server via SMTP. It's called connection filtering. And it's very easy to configure. This can literally cut down on about 98% of your spam.

First thing you need to do is go to the Message Delivery properties

's ip address from a spam database lookup like the one found on DNS Stuff.

But now to the fun stuff. Exchange allows you to filter who can connect to your server via SMTP. It's called connection filtering. And it's very easy to configure. This can literally cut down on about 98% of your spam.

First thing you need to do is go to the Message Delivery properties in Exchange system manager. Once there go to the connection filtering tab.

The second step in this process is to actually add the server names of the blacklist providing servers. Once again these can be found in the google directory. I personally only use the top three servers on the list because if you add them all it can be very processor intensive on your server and some of the smaller providers results may not be as accurate. Once you click the add button you will be able to add the servers. This window is very self explanatory. You basically just add the name of the server found on the google blacklist directory. From here you can also type custom messages as to what you want to return to the sending SMTP server for denying the connection. The variables for the custom messages are as follows.

%0 – connecting IP address %1 – rule name of the Connection Filter %2 – the RBL provider

Once you setup your custom error codes which are optional you can choose which types of blacklisted servers you want to block. You can do this by clicking on the return status code radio button. If you want to deny all servers listed on the blacklist then you can leave the default radio button selected. Or you can choose which custom blacklisted servers you want to block. Here are the options that you have to choose from.

127.0.0.1 – Blocklist 127.0.0.2 – Known Open Relay 127.0.0.4 – DialUp IP Address

Congratulations you have now successfully configured rules to block message deliver. There is just one last step in the process you must apply these rules to your vi