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Topic: One More Nail
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| j.hodl | Posted – 7/27/2007 6:44:46 PM | show profile For any freelancer who thinks e-mail is the best way to make article proposals to editors, your days are numbered. In the last month, I've run across a few companies using a new kind of anti-Spam filter. It doesn't check Subject lines or look for certain words in the text. It looks at your e-mail URL and rejects all in-coming e-mails sent through common Internet providers. If you have a corporate e-mail address, your message goes through. But not if you use AOL, MSN, Earthlink, Verizon, Centurytel and oodles of common providers to which a freelance writer working from a home office might subscribe. A wise sage once said, "For every question there is an easy answer... which is always dead wrong." The new Anti-Spam filter is just the best example I've seen of this. Yes, it will eliminate Spam (until the abusers find a new way). But... Notice to corporations: Don't your customers also contact you through common Internet access providers? Won't you miss them? |
| WordyBird | Posted – 7/27/2007 8:57:31 PM | show profile I can't say I'm surprised. I guess we're all going to have to spring for our own domains. Good point about customers, too. Sigh... |
| questoo1 | Posted – 7/28/2007 6:30:08 AM | show profile That sounds pretty surprising. I think the best work around is to get your self an email alias - simple enough to so rather then johnqpublic@yahoo.com, it would be johbqpublic@qcorp.com. Give that a shot and see how it goes. |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 7/28/2007 3:56:17 PM | show profile Even if you get your own domain, this can happen. If a domain host has a lot of spammers using their services, corporate e-mail servers will start blocking all e-mails from ALL users of that domain host. Hardly fair there either- I ran into this problem a while back when I did not know about this issue. So, do great research when looking for a domain host. But it really isn't that expensice or hard to set up. |
