Business Vs Spam

The end of 2007 is vastly approaching and so is the realisation that by the end of it 50% of all our emails will be spam emails. In 2001 this figure stood at a mere 8% but with more and more of us using the Internet in our daily lives, whether it be for business or pleasure, spammers are finding more and more ways of infiltrating our inbox's.

Spammers are costing British companies an estimated £5 billion a year as well as holding back the growth of the Internet as a business tool. Many employees are now spending up to an hour a day reading and deleting spam. The most common forms of spam email being:

o Product selling - usually pharmaceutical

o Religious movements

o Porn

o Chain letters

o Computer viruses

Obviously the best way to avoid spam is to stay off the spammers lists in the first place. To do this all staff should be encouraged to protect their company email address wherever it is possible to do so, this will reduce the chances of being targeted by spammers. A few ways in which this can be done is to avoid posting in newsgroups/discussion lists. These are one of the main sources for spammers to collect email addresses. Try not to get listed in online directories or chat rooms as your email address is likely to be harvested by spammers. If you do post on chat rooms, use a display name; do not use your email address. You can also remove @ from your email address when sending it to people via forums etc; you can replace it with at word 'at.' This will stop spammers harvesting your email address.

Businesses are always the worst affected by spam; it reduces employee productivity and drains networks resources as well as taking up bandwidth, meaning companies are wasting money on unproductive bandwidth everyday. Your businesses reputation could also be on the line if your computer network receives a virus that affects your outbound messages. This would mean that the virus would be sent to all the clients and other email address in your email account. You will also get more Spam if your company has a website as this is how most Spam finds its way to your email address.

Company reputations and personal reputations are on the line. Your business will lose money and revenue due to people having to filter through their emails to weed out useless Spam messages, calculating to millions of pounds per month.

With the use of a spam filter programme your business will have increased productivity, more bandwidth and of course more money. Decent spam filters block 99% of spam emails, with only 0.0003% of normal emails accidentally being blocked. Spam filters look for 'buzz' words such as Viagra and penis etc as well as filtering out images of a pornographic or unsuitable nature. Spam filters normally also come with virus engines to scan inbound and outbound messages; outbound message control means your companies reputation is protected so that you're not spreading viruses to people in your email account.

Anti-spam filters are managed 24/7 and require no hardware, software, maintenance and bring no hassle. They could be the solution your business needs to win the fight against spam and allow you to get on with the more important things; the success of your business.

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International Concern For Work Accidents

That said the same amount of effort needs to be made to ensure that the workers are safe whether there are 5 or 50 workers, dangerous equipment or knitting needles. By putting in the effort prior to a work accident you go a fair distance to protecting yourself as an employer and the investment you have made in your employees.

An American week for consideration The United States Department of Labour has dedicated this week to promoting drug awareness and the importance of being drug free at work. The campaign not only highlights the importance of being drug free at work but also tries to provide individuals with the opportunity to seek help with any drug or alcohol related problems they may be having. The Drug free work week is the brain child of the Department of Labour who make use of cooperative agreements to focus on improving safety and health in the construction industry.

This is done via a variety of workplace programs that look at drug abuse prevention and the positive impact abstinence has on workplace safety as well as the negative implications of drug abuse. According to the researchers at the Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions, there were an estimated 17.7 million working adults using illicit drugs in 2007. Even more worrying is the 3.9 million that do so before they report to work or during work hours. The drug free work week will help employers, supervisors and workers understand how to implement an effective, drug-free program that focuses on detection and deterrence.

A European week for consideration The European's are also drawing attention to the work environment and are also spending this week on improving work place safety and health. Businesses have been reminded that this year's theme is 'risk assessment' and that prevention is still better than cure. It had been proven on numerous occasions across the world that by assessing the risks and preparing for them is pivotal in keeping the number of work accidents down. Risk assessments are a legal requirement and usually employ a five step process.

The first step involves identifying what the hazards are and the individuals those that are at potential risk. In this step it is also important to prioritise your risks as you think up the measures that need to be taken to prevent certain risks coming to fruition. It is not only important to talk and discuss what the risks are but to actually take the very steps outlined during the 'prevention' planning stages. After taking the action needed to implement the plans, organisations can now monitor and review its capabilities as a preventative measure.

Is it helping, has it highlighted new problem areas, what more can be done? These are the questions that should be asked during the review sessions and by continually going through them, employers ensure they are remaining current with their business. Any concerns are rectified swiftly and unnecessary accidents are prevented as well as the lawsuits that could potentially come with any mishaps.

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Best Audio Streaming 6 Steps To Audio Streaming

The competition on the World Wide Web has increased a lot in the recent past. In the past few years the internet has emerged as one most important source of doing business. Not only the internet is important for doing business, it is also very important for information exchange. There are millions and millions of websites which currently exist on the World Wide Web. These web sites deal with different topics. Some of them are grocery stores while others are online libraries. Some of the web sites are meant for socializing while others provide you with a lot of information by being an online encyclopedia or news channel.

As the competition in the online world is increasing in intensity, so is the requirement of people to have state of the art web sites. Technology and innovation is becoming very important. Online businesses cannot survive until and unless these businesses are given a support by state of the art technology. Streaming of media is one such feature. Media streaming is common these days. It makes your web site able to send or receive files on real time basis. In audio streaming, audio files and sent to people in this way.

If you want to have audio streaming feature in your web site, you first of all need to understand the need of your web site. If your business needs it, you must go for it. Find the right web designer. Plan how will you use this audio streaming feature to promote your web site. Plan and imagine the expansion of your business in response to such efforts. Give this task to some professional and he or she will be able to produce good quality files for audio streaming. Send out these files and promote your web site.

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Malthusian Mythology

In 1798, Thomas Malthus published a pamphlet titled An Essay on the Principle of Population, in which he asserted that the burgeoning population of the human race was on the verge of exhausting the abilities of the planet to support them, and that mass starvation was imminent. The population of the world in 1798 was just short of a billion; 210 years later, we have a population of 7 billion and starvation is less severe today than it was in Malthus' England.

Humans display a curious fascination with disaster, which explains rubber-necking at traffic accidents and the popularity of movies such as The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure, and in fact any movie featuring exploding cars and lots of people getting shot. This characteristic has often been utilized by people trying to push a particular agenda or ideology. For example, in the 1930s, cast iron cookware manufactures convinced many people that cooking in the newly introduced aluminum cookware would contaminate their food with poisonous aluminum sulfide.

Of course, informed people knew that aluminum is an extremely active metal and that, upon exposure to air, it immediately forms a hard oxide coating. Thus you're not cooking on aluminum, you're cooking on aluminum oxide - an inert compound so hard that we make knife sharpening stones out of it, and incidentally a major component of clay, on which man has been cooking for more than 10,000 years.

After World War II destroyed socialism in Germany and Italy, advocates of international socialism regrouped and rebounded with a barrage of neo-Malthusian propaganda aimed at man's disaster fascination. in the early 1960s, the Club of Rome, a group of world socialists founded in 1958 in Bellagio, Italy under the auspices of David Rockefeller, isolated a two year rapid increase in population growth (which was actually the natural recovery from a drop in population growth in the late 1950s) to "prove" that world population was exploding.

In the 1970s, in the depths of a period of reduced solar radiation, the neo-Malthusian alarmists declared that industrial pollution was driving the earth into a new "ice age." Manufacturing facilities were gleefully shut down across the northern states to conserve gas needed to heat homes, and there was talk of air-dropping tons of carbon black onto the polar and Greenland ice sheets to reverse the effects of man's "reckless damaging of the environment."

When solar radiation increased in the 1980s and the planet warmed again, the neo-Malthusians found a new target - Freon. Freon, it was claimed, destroyed ozone in the atmosphere and hence needed to be banned. The facts that this assertion had never been demonstrated in a laboratory and that ozone, being the result of sun light acting on oxygen, would be immediately recreated by the sun if it were to be destroyed, did not stop the extremists from getting international signatories to the Montreal Protocol, which placed severe stresses on at least three industries that use Freon: urethane foam manufacturing, air conditioning, and medical device sterilization.

"Ah," you may say, "but 'scientists' did find a 'hole' in the ozone over the South Pole." Ah yes, but have you ever asked yourself why such a phenomenon, supposedly caused by humans, should occur over the South Pole where there are no humans? I'll tell you why. One evening in the 1980s, two college professors were sitting in a bar, and they happened to overhear two engineers discussing the fact that a strong south magnetic field deinonizes negative ions. One professor said to the other, "I'll bet there's a thin spot in the ozone over the south pole." The other professor said, "And I'll bet we can get millions of dollars in government grants to go down there and 'study' it."

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, is caused by the north magnetic pole of the earth ionizing gases in the atmosphere; conversely the earth's south magnetic pole deinonizes ions - like ozone. That thin spot in the ozone layer over the south pole has been there for billions of years before man even evolved on this planet. What? Did you think the penguins were using hair spray?

In the 1990s, as the effects of the sun's warming trend began to be felt, we were besieged with alarms of "global warming," caused, curiously enough, by the same industrial pollution that supposedly caused our decent toward another "ice age" in the 1970s. Typically, the alarmists ignored or hid certain cogent facts, such as the fact that as polar ice caps were melting on earth, they were also melting on Mars!

Of course, more than a decade into the twenty-first century, it has become obvious that 'global warming" was a hoax. But why, following collapse after collapse of these false alarms, do their purveyors persist in coming up with new ones? Perhaps Christine Stewart, when she was Canadian Minister of the Environment, said it best: "No matter if the science of global warming is all phony... climate change provides the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world."

Aha! The light dawns. All of these alarms of impending disasters - from the Club of Rome's population explosion through the phosphate and acid rain scares to the "global warming" hoax - are designed to accomplish only one thing: the erosion of Capitalism. There is an international conspiracy, fostered under the aegis of the UN and codified in UN Agenda 21, to redistribute the wealth of the nations who were energetic enough to create it to those who are either too lazy or too ignorant to make their own wealth - an ignorance exemplified by the fact that they consider Capitalism to be the hoarder of wealth, and do not recognize that it is the creator of wealth.

How do we protect ourselves from being taken in by these persistent and insidious attacks against the freedoms and values of America? Your only defense is to educate yourself to the extent that you recognize these threats as nothing more than lies and terrorism, so that the next time the silly little shepherd boy cries "wolf," you can ignore him with impunity.

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