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| Merchant Newsletter - February 18, 2006 | ||
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AOL and Yahoo! decide what you get! |
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      Both AOL and Yahoo! are altering or filtering your emails! |
While
this technology is very useful for businesses that want to see the
location of delivery vehicles, cabs, limos and more, it can also be used
against YOU! These services require that the phone accept a
message stating that the phone will be monitored for location based
information, but if someone gets hold of your phone, they can easily
accept the message for you. There is no other indication that this
has been done after the fact. Conversely,
people can use it to keep track of their husbands, wives, and children,
as they have easy access to each other's phones. Now I can track the
cell phones of all my mistresses. I think they are all cheating on me.
Of course, my 2 wives don't know about this. (just kidding -
ed.) We found one such service at www.accutracking.com,
although it only works with a few carriers and phones. Verizon has
announced it will offer the service directly on its child-friendly 'Migo'
phone, focusing on a segment that will probably not draw too many
complaints from privacy advocates.
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While this did not
happen the next week, a recent AOL announcement stated that they would
be removing links and images from their customer's emails at their
discretion! As you know, this
email is free, but if you are paying for any newsletters for
information in your industry or hobby, the action of these companies could
be construed as theft! What can I do?
To insure that you get all of the emails associated with your merchant
account, you can "Whitelist" the following URL's: MerchantAnywhere.com |
AOL and Yahoo! have announced they are both moving to a pay-to-send format, that can cost a sender tens of thousands of dollars. See the article here. If the sender doesn't pay, their email is subject to editing, deletion, or filtering! Clearly only the high volume spammers can afford to do this anyway! In order to
avoid this mess, you can always set up a free
Gmail account.
This service gives you a free 1-gigabyte mailbox, and is run by
Google! If you do this, to get the newsletter sent to your new
address send an email with 'SUBSCRIBE'
in the subject to: merchantapp@merchantanywhere.com.
from your new Gmail account. Hopefully you get this, as there have
been reports of emails containing Gmail promotions being filtered as Spam.
If you find this newsletter in your Spam folder for the very first time,
you know your provider is guilty! |
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