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Newsletter #4 - Message Boards

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How can message boards/web forums help you?
Hot Tip of The Week - Get rid of SPAM for good!

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Message Boards/Web Forums

Much like word of mouth is the best type of advertising, message boards and web forums are the best way to gain knowledge. Compared with today, people's knowledge of a topic depended on their resources and who they talked to. Now with the internet and web forums, people can share ideas and hone their opinions in a way that allows them to have a much broader perspective on any given topic.

This becomes especially useful in buying things online, reviewing different products, and troubleshooting anything from cars to computers.

YouCanBuildAPC has a Message Boards section that allows it's users to post topics and find answers to questions they have. If you are running into a problem while building your computer, chances are someone else has already had that problem and will be able to help you solve it much faster!

Check out the Message Boards on a regular basis to see if any new topics have been posted, or even to post a topic of your own.

Hot Tip Of The Week!

Get Rid of SPAM for Good!

Remember that law that went into effect the 1st of this year? The Can Spam Act? Guess what, it does what it's name implies. It allows spammers to continue spamming. Even though it provides contingencies to what is considered "legal spam," such as providing a link to opt out of the list, this still does not help the onslaught of spam that most people face every day.

Providing an opt out link that's supposed to remove your name from a list DOES NOT WORK. I know because I've tried. I used to get about 5 spam emails a week, I tried an opt out link and now I get 5 spam emails EVERY DAY! Now I know better than to use those links, they're nothing but trouble.

So what should you do?

Here are two great options that will stop nearly every piece of SPAM from ever reaching you.

Option #1

With SPAM being as advanced as it is by trying to trick you or get you to reply with confidential information, there is only one way to beat the system: permission-based email.

Permission-based email means that the only people who can send you email are the ones who you want. You give permission to send email. When someone who's not on your list sends you email, they will automatically receive an email asking them to follow a link to become an approved sender.

ChoiceMail is one of the best permission-based email programs, and this becomes obvious after reading through their list of features and benefits.

ChoiceMail One Features	Benefits
Permission-based email management	Only wanted mail gets to your Inbox No more spam – ever!
Works with any email program	Use what you use now to read/write email, Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Mozilla, etc.
Creates whitelist at set-up; keeps it up to date as you work Automatic import for Outlook, Outlook Express and Eudora Easy import-export for most others NEW – drag and drop addresses from other programs	Easy to use Minimizes challenges to legitimate senders No “challenge loop” (a major problem in some challenge-response systems
Secure, encrypted challenge-response process Requires manual intervention Tells you who is responding and what they want	Keeps you safe from hackers Response cannot be automated by spammers – only real senders get through New-sender approval is not automatic – only ChoiceMail lets you decide who to approve
Write unlimited rules to accept mail from non-whiltelisted senders	Solves another problem in many challenge-response systems. Lets you accept: Newsletters Mailing lists Mail on topics important to you
Tools to block unwanted mail and obvious spam Blacklist addresses or entire domains – now drag-and-drop from other programs Write unlimited rules to block unwanted mail NEW – optional built-in rules and region blocking let you stop obvious spam	Mail you know you don’t want goes straight to the junk box Simplifies manual review of unknown mail Avoids sending out unnecessary challenges
Supports unlimited email accounts in all formats: POP3 IMAP Web mail (i.e., AOL, Yahoo, MSN and Hotmail)	ChoiceMail One protects all your email, regardless of source
Email gateway – not a plug-in to Outlook or other email programs	Works with any email program Keeps unknown mail completely out of your email application Helps protect you from viruses, web bugs and trojans
Safe message previewer	Find out what’s in an email without activating any dangerous or offensive content
No limit on email storage or download capacity	A major limitation in on-line anti-spam services, especially if you email pictures and other media files
Smart Auto-Responder	Send automatic away or other messages only to approved senders
Virtual email addresses	Protect your real email addresses Mail from vendors and newsletters comes through automatically Quickly replace a virtual email address if it gets abused
Domain region blocking	Automatically deletes messages containing URLs in the body of email messages that reference spam sources in various regions of the world
Highly configurable	Many preferences to suit your particular needs whether novice, intermediate or advanced Tailor your challenge messages and smart autoresponder to suit your own personal or professional business style

Best of all, ChoiceMail will give you a 14 Day Free Trial to see if it's something you'd like.

Instantly download ChoiceMail from their website and give it a shot. Stop wasting your time deleting erroneous emails!

Option #2

PC Security Shield's Spam Shield.

The best thing about this software is that it's fully customizable. It allows you to not only import your Outlook Express address book and allow those people to email you, you can also block certain email addresses or emails that have certain keywords in them. This becomes very useful when you can find keywords in emails that somehow keep finding their way to your inbox.

Click here for an example of my inbox before Spam Shield.

You'll notice that you can pick out keywords such as Valium, Cialis, Medication, big, etc. Just put these words on the Spam Shield list and you won't be receiving any more emails from those annoying spammers trying to sell you prescription drugs.

A piece of software like this is so valuable. Imagine how much time you spend sifting through and deleting erroneous messages EVERY DAY! Do yourself a favor and get a fully customizable piece of software that will put an end to your spam problems FOR GOOD. Best of all, it's only $19.99 and you'll receive the software INSTANTLY!

For reviews on even more stores, be sure to check out the Online Store Review section.

Sincerely,

Brian Renner

YouCanBuildAPC.com