Freeing Your Business From Junk E-Mail (NAPSA)—A new approach to saving yourself from junk e-mail, or “spam,” can save you money and valuable time—even more than just hitting “delete.” Spam costs American industry thousands if not millions of dollars per day—as much as twodollars for each employee, according to one estimate. Unfortunately, the price of sending the stuff is negligible. Sending a million messages costs about the same as sending a thousand. Also because the cost is so low, even a small numberof positive responses can make spamming profitable. Even tough laws maynothelp. Because the Internet is global, spammers can simply step over the border and continue their activities. Fortunately, you can fight spam both in your own company and throughout the Internet. There are some important steps you can take to keep unsolicited commercial e-mail out of your employees’ in-boxes. Don’t use the “please remove me”links or addresses spammers provide. These serve only to confirm to the spammer that a real live humanis receiving e-mail at your address. * Complain to the spammer’s Internet service provider. This infor- mation can usually be found in the message headers. Don’t complain to A new guide shows you how to stop spam. the spammer directly—theywill either ignore you or, worse, add your address to a list of known working addresses. Get help. The e-mail experts at Novell, the company that produced GroupWise, and Beginfinite have teamed up to create an executive guide to fighting spam, called “You’ve Got Spam! Now What?” This brochure tells you what spam is, where it comes from, and what you can do to get rid of it. If you are concerned about protecting your information, increasing the security of your business communications, and improving your employees’ productivity, then you may want to read this guide. To download “You’ve Got Spam! Now What?” and learn more about fighting spam, go to www.novell.com /products/groupwise/antispam.html.
