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Email in the near-perfect
world.
Until a few years ago, every email
sent to me showed up in my inbox. My solution was to configure my
email program's spam filter to send unwanted spam to my trash folder automatically.
This work great. Ididn't have to sort through thousands of junk emails
each day just to find the important emails. I didn't have to worry
about accidentally deleting an important email because it happened
to be wedged in between a couple rebate processor and viagra spam emails.
My spam filter was keeping the spam away. Things were perfect.
Life was good, but this was about to change.
Whatever happened
to, "If it ain't broke don't fix it?"
A couple years ago, 'Big Brother'
(aka our Internet Email Servers, Hosts, and
Internet
Providers
-IESHIP
for short) intervened and decided that we were either not smart enough,
didn't know what was best for us, or just shouldn't be allowed to make
our own decisions as to which of our emails we should see. Yes, in
this democracy that we live in, our very own servers decided to start censoring
our email. It was for our own good, they said.
It is no longer
just a SPAM problem.
That's right. Now we not only
have a SPAM problem, but we have an even bigger IESHIP
problem. Our IESHIP
are are sending our important emails to the SPAM folder or trash folder
before we even get a chance to see them. So we have to sift through
all the SPAM to dig our important emails out of the mess. Some of
it gets lost and/or accidentally deleted with the rest of the SPAM.
So some SPAM still gets through, but with this server-side censorship many
of my important emails get blocked by the censors. You think
that's bad? Wait - it gets even worse.
How could it possibly
be worse than that?
Much of our email never even gets
delivered. I'll say it again. Much of our email never
even gets delivered. Our IESHIP
are censoring much of our mail at the host/server level. They have
arbitrarily developed a point system for deciding if we get our mail or
not.
Each of their so-called spam triggers
is assigned a point value. If the total points hits a certain value
(determined by these censors), we will never see our email. Even
the simplest most innocent things can be spam triggers that affect total
points; things such as having html in the message, having a URL that the
censors arbritrarily blacklisted, and even bailing to have a blank line
between the MIM header and the email body. Good Grief!
I did complain to my host that they
were blocking many of my important emails from people and companies with
which I need to communicate. Their response was and I quote, "If
a certain sender is getting blacklisted, please let us know and we can
whitelist him." I told them one such sender that I wished them
to stop blocking. But their response was that they would not whitelist
this sender because, and again I quote, "In short, regardless of what
you are claiming, the domain in which the email is sent from . . . is a
known domain that has appeared in spam and is thus blacklisted."
Our IESHIP
have compiled a list of "SPAM triggers." Each SPAM trigger
is worth a certain amount of points. If an email scores enough points,
the email is bounced back to the sender without ever being delivered.
That means if you send an email to a prospect, that prospect will never
receive that email if it contains enough of these SPAM triggers.
The list of SPAM triggers
is growning daily. You probably have guessed by now that the word,
"free," is a spam trigger. But did you also know that the URL, automaticbuilder.com,
is also a spam trigger? I have provided a partial
list of SPAM triggers, but now that I got your attention. .
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What can we do?
How can we be sure our emails get delivered?
1. Avoid using SPAM
triggers in your emails, including those from your autoresponder.
Example: AOL will flat out
refuse to deliver any email with my sponsor,
myberrytree.com,
in the email body. As a result, my downline that uses AOL cannot
get email from me that is important to their business.
2. If you are a webmaster,
use a URL redirect page.
Make a page such as mypage.htm,
and install a redirect
script on it. You use www.mydomain.com/mypage.htm
in your email correspondence. Email recipient goes to
www.mydomain.com/mypage.htm and
is redirected automatically to the proper page.
3. Change a blacklisted URL
at Tiny
URL.
Or you can just use the conversion
box below. Another good use for Tiny URL is to disguise your affiliate
links to prevent thieves from replacing your id with theirs and stealing
your sales.
Example: I just typed http://automaticbuilder.com/memberadmin
into the box above. Then I clicked the "Make TinyURL!" button.
It just made me a new URL, http://tinyurl.com/6abovz.
This new URL is the one I now use when I mention it in emails, because
this new URL is not blacklisted. The new URL goes to the same place
as the old one. Try it!
Be aware of these "SPAM triggers"
that may cause email filters to bounce your mail.
Body of email triggers
- Body contains "money back"
- Body contains "cards accepted"
- Body contains "spam removal
instructions"
- Body contains "extra income"
- Body contains ",000" AND
Body contains "!!" AND Body contains "$"
- Body contains "Dear friend"
- Body contains "for free?"
- Body contains "for free!"
- Body contains "Guarantee"
AND Body contains "satisfaction" OR "absolute"
- Body contains "more info"
AND Body contains "visit " AND Body contains "$"
- Body contains "SPECIAL
PROMOTION"
- Body contains "one-time
mail"
- Body contains "$$$"
- Body contains "order today"
- Body contains "order now!"
- Body contains "money-back
guarantee"
- Body contains "100% satisfied"
- Body address contains
" mlm"
- Body address contains
"@mlm"
- Body address contains
"///////////////"
- Body contains "check or
money order"
- Body contains "click here"
or "click below" (try using "visit here" instead)
"From" triggers
- First 8 characters are
digits
- From address contains
"sales@"
- From address contains
"success."
- From address contains
"success@"
- From address contains
"mail@"
- From address contains
"@public"
- From address contains
"@savvy"
- From address contains
"profits@"
- From address contains
"hello@"
"Subject line" triggers
- Subject contains "$$"
- Subject contains "!" AND
Subject contains "$"
- Subject contains "!" AND
Subject contains "free"
- Subject contains "advertisement"
or "adv"
"To" triggers
- To address contains "friend@"
- To address contains "public@"
- To address contains "success@"
Blacklisted URLs
- abezine.com
- automaticbuilder.com
- myberrytree.com
- quickstarttowealth.com
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Don't SPAM! Keep your
website URL off the blacklist.
Redirect script:
Copy and paste this html into the
metatags area which is in the <head> section of your html. Don't
forget to change the RED TEXT to the actual
domain name and page of the website you want your visitors to see.
The number 0
is also an editable value. Change the number to the number of seconds
delay until the page being directed to appears. A value of zero redirects
with no delay.
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;
URL=http://myberrytree.com/bt97688">
Just
in case the server is slow or hangs, I also paste the following html above
the fold in the <body> section.
<center>
<p><br><b><font
face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+2>If page does not load
in
5 seconds</font></font></b>
<p><b><font
face="Arial,Helvetica"><font size=+2><a href="http://myberrytree.com/bt97688"
target="_top" onmouseover="window.status='Berry Tree';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='
';return true;">CLICK
HERE</a></font></font></b></center>
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