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Lame spam of the day: spam mashup

Robert Weiner

This plain-text spam has no sender, subject, formatting, or graphics. After that comes what looks like an email header, then some spam text, then a bunch of blank lines, and finally, to cap the effort, random text from travel guides. Even though this sandwich may help you get to that day much faster, you''ll definitely be smiling.

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Lame spam as blog comments

Robert Weiner

I wrote recently about spam in the form of blog comments. Fortunately, my anti-spam filters (Akismet and Bad Behavior) caught them. I say to you, I definitely get annoyed while people consider worries that they just do not know about. This last one is for Ugg boots -- up there with "performance aids" as a source of spam.

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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. .|

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What actually happened: Apple Mail Privacy Protection

M+R

Well, first of all, the definition changed. Deliverability warning signs often show up in open rates, because poor deliverability means more emails going to spam, and people don’t tend to read the emails in their spam folder very often. But you know who else doesn’t read emails in the spam folder? That part is still true.

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Practical, Actionable SEO Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This is definitely a factor and something to consider when you use AI to write for you. Nikoleychuk predicts that search engines will release more spam and useful content updates in 2024 to try and weed out low-value content.” So, what kind of content is that, exactly?

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How to rent or buy an email list and why YOU should avoid it like the plague

Whole Whale

CAN-SPAM fines Let’s start with the scary legal argument: it is technically illegal to send unsolicited, ‘cold emails’ to people that haven’t opted-in to hear from your organization. Learn more about the CAN-SPAM fines which can be up to $16,000 per violation. Reasons not to rent or buy a list.

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4 Ideas for Activating Your Donors Over Email

Network for Good

And when it comes to structure, you might think that things like questions, statements, ellipses, “you’ll never believe…” or some surprising statistic might not work because they sound like spam. But the reason spam bots use structures like this is because they do work and people do open them! Tip #4: Calls to Action.