Three Proven Ways Around E-mail Filters or, Why Doesn't Your Mother Answer Your E-mail?
by Dr. Joe Vitale
www.mrfire.com
Back in the 1950s a crazed senator ruined many
lives by simply accusing them of being a communist.
Movie stars were destroyed in a day. It didn't matter
if the allegations were true. If senator Joseph McCarthy
pointed a finger at you, and suggested you were part
of the "red menace," your reputation was destroyed.
McCarthy's witchhunting played on our fears, stirred
up hate, and ruined innocent lives.
Sound familiar?
The same thing is happening today. Accuse
someone of being a spammer and that person
suddenly has to defend himself, whether the
allegation was true or not. While actual spammers
are low in numbers, they bomb the Net with enough
emails to make everyone think that we are being
invaded by a Spam Army from Cyberspace.
This scare has caused servers to set up email
filters, triggers, blocks, censors, condemners, and
more. We even have a federal law against spamming.
The ironic thing is, spam hasn't stopped. It hasn't
even slowed down. I don't know about you, but my
inbox is still stuffed with spam every day.
Instead, the effort to stop spam has now caused
legit email to not make it to its intended recipient.
If you use the innocent word "friend" in your email
to your mother, some filters will consider your email
spam and automatically delete it. Your mother will
never receive your email. She'll never respond to
something she never received. You won't know why.
You'll just wonder why she's mad at you (again).
And of course the tried and true vocabulary of
marketing is now a definite spam trigger. Since
"Friend" is often used at the beginning of a spam
message, it's now considered a filter trigger. So are
such obvious trigger words as "free" and "guarantee."
And if you use one too many exclamation points in
your email, your email will be branded as spam, too.
What are you going to do? How are you going
to continue sending and receiving email?
Even if you have no intention of selling anything,
the filters are so sensitive that you may accidentally
use a word that triggers the deletion of your email,
even when you're simply writing to your best "friend."
While the quest continues for a solution to spam,
here are three ways (and one bonus method) around
e-mail filters so your legit emails can make it through:
1. Do the two-step.
This is based on the old advertising formula of
running a small classified ad that directs people
to call you for more information. But online you
simple send an email that gives people a reason
to go to your website. In other words, your short
email is the first step. It directs them to go to
your site (the second step) where they can read
all of your letter. I now do this when sending out
my monthly ezine to my subscribers. I send readers
a brief email asking them some questions, such
as "How did Britney Spears help me sell my
new product?" I then direct them to
http://www.mrfire.com/hypnotic-newsletter.html
to discover the answers.
2. Use a spam checker.
There are several services that allow you to
run your email through their spam checker.
They detect what words you need to change in
order to get your email through the filter gates.
My favorite is at Sitesell.com.
3. Send your voice.
A new way to send your messages by email
without ever triggering a spam filter is to send
your voice over email. This is simple. Use a new
software called Speak and Send to do just that:
Speak into your computer's mike and then click
send to deliver your voice, in an email, to your
recipient. They simply click and listen. You can
swear all you like and no filter will ever stop your
email. See http://www.SpeakandSend.com
Bonus idea: You might also use RSS. It's a
way to have your own news syndication. In other
words, people sign up for emails from you using
an RSS feeder. When you send an email to them
over RSS, they receive it instantly, by-passing all
filters. I have one at http://www.mrfire.com You can
learn about RSS at http://www.StampedeSecret.com
Until we find a better solution to stopping the
spam kings and queens out there, any of the
above should help make your online life easier.
Just don't let fear stop you from enjoying the best
tool yet developed for instant communication: E-mail.
After all, fear already stops most people from living
their lives to the fullest. And we don't need another
Joseph McCarthy.
Just ask your mother.
Copyright © 2005 by Joe Vitale. All rights reserved.
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