Tag Archives: privacy

Spam: The Documentary is Airing Tonight and Saturday

Looks like an interesting and quite possibly funny documentary. It’s about time someone made a doc on this. While investigating this intrusive marketing machine, Manning also responds to offers for penis enlargement, the purchase of a genuine Rolex watch and a quick weight reduction method promising lost inches in just 60 minutes. Spam the Documentary [...]

Factoid: Emails are sent each day

Ever wondered how many emails are sent each day? Well, we got out our abacus and started counting. Turns out, over 171 billion – yes, billion – emails are sent daily. That breaks down to 2 million email messages every second. The bad news? Around 70% is considered spam. Source: About.com Email

Canada Needs Tougher Standards for Bulk Email List Management

Today there are no minimum data security standards that a company must meet to market themselves as an email service provider. Any independent freelancer with rudimentary coding skills can buy a computer, download an open source list management tool, set up a bulk email server and open an email marketing service. Companies are left with [...]