How to Set up Your Own Personal Website, without Spending Any MoneyWritten by Vijay Chidambaram
It has been my dream, right from childhood, to establish a great site, without spending any money. So I searched web, for free domain names, free web hosting and free websites. I would like to share results of my search with you. I have searched all over web for free hosting. I have set up free sites in all of them. From this experience, I can confidently say that two best free web hosting solutions are Tripod and Freewebsites In Tripod, you get a free website, http:yourname.tripod.com and and also an e-mail id yourname@lycos.com. You get free web Gems(addons) and a online WYSWYG editor and an online html editor. Whereas, in FreeWebsites, you can get a free website with a number of domains like yourname.koolhost.com or yourname.b0x.com or simply yourname.freewebsites.com.These are only some of great domains available at freewebsites. You also get a free e-mail address like yourname@yourname.koolhost.com. Any email sent to this email address is automatically forwarded to your main e-mail address. Also, there is an option of Bannerless Advertising in Freewebsites.There is an option of Pop-up Advertising in Tripod. So both these web-hosting solutions are great, besides being free. So pick your favourite free web hoster and set up a site there.
| | Bulk email, spam, and email marketingWritten by Steve Lillo
Bulk Email, Spam and Email Marketing Excerpted from PlanetLink's Enews - an email newsletter delivered for FREE to your computer. To subscribe, go to www.planetlink.com This issue focuses on effective use of email lists and bulk email for website and business promotion. Bulk email essentially consists of sending same message to some number of recipients at same time. Spam is characterized as sending bulk mail to recipients whom you have had no prior contact or permission. The issue of whether or not to send Spam can be summed up in three words - "don't do it." While it's not currently illegal under Federal law, (although sending bulk non-approved faxes is), it is generally not permitted by Internet Service Providers under their "terms of service" agreement (PlanetLink's terms of service can be found at http://www.planetlink.com/policy.html). Most ISPs will issue a warning on first occurrence and cancel a client's service on second. The reason for zero tolerance is that while responsible party can literally send millions of messages almost for free, costs associated with sending, delivering and receiving spam are incurred by recipient whose time is spent processing unwanted mail as well as ISPs that transport and store email. A recent European Commission report found that world wide cost is $9.36 billion per year. The other reasons for not sending Spam are impact it has on reputation of company and risk of interruption or cancellation of service. The other issue of importance for ISPs whose client's repeatedly send spam is that mail sent from their network can be blocked by other ISPs trying to stop spam from reaching their clients; potentially affecting thousands of customers. Under California Bus. & Prof. Code Section 17538.45, sending spam through a mail server based in California is illegal and allows for damages of $50 per message.
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