Spam is defiantly a problem. At one time I was receiving almost 300 per day, spending a good part an hour sifting through mass of junk was more than I could tolerate. So I too enlisted help of a Spam Filter – Spam Arrest.

I do worry about losing out on emails that are important and interesting, but this is price we all have to pay for those Spammers that have abused and are abusing Internet.

Most Spam Filters use a Blacklist – these are clusters of email addresses and domain names that are known for sending out a lot of Spam. Recipients of Spam generate most Blacklists’. So your newsletter could fall victim to a click happy Spam identifier that clicks your email into dreaded Blacklist vault.

Spam Assassin, Cloudmark’s SpamNet and Spam Arrest all use different methods of blocking spam. Spam Assassin uses a point system to conclude whether or not an email is Spam. If your Newsletter scores high it will surely be treated as spam and blocked. SpamNet blocks Spam two ways; first, filters email based on keywords like “Free”, and second allows users to mark email and submit identified Spam to be blocked to other users of SpamNet.

My personal favorite is Spam Arrest, because it offers you total control over your inbox. You can decide who is allowed to send you email by importing your personal address book, or entering your known and approved contact addresses directly into system.

Emails from unknown senders will receive an auto-reply message containing a "challenge" -- if or when sender completes challenge (the response), their email is forwarded to your inbox, and they are then added to your authorized sender list.

Monopoly is a very simple game once you understand how to win. Most everyone who plays game knows that to win, formula is very basic. Buy green houses. Trade 4 green houses for a hotel. Repeat often and you will win. The fun comes with having enough money and luck to buy all those properties, houses and hotels. Another way of looking at formula is to say, 'the game is won by controlling most property'.

Have you ever stopped to think how this could apply to your business? Could you use this secret in someway to increase amount of money you earn? Of course you can, if you make one simple distinction. What is 'property' of your business?

An online business lives and dies on internet. The property of an internet business is ... 'WORDS'. That's right, words. In a given industry, company who controls most property wins. Now, its definitely not a game but concept is very workable. The words you control are what distinguishes your company from some other company. The reason this works is because web is indexed based on words. Most people will find your business because of something they read. So, if you control best property in your online business, you should get best results.