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Spam Policy
Alphatech5.com strictly prohibits site partners and/or end-users from engaging in illegal emailing activities, such as transmission of unsolicited or unauthorized advertisements, promotional materials, "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," or other forms of solicitation. To report spam please send us a copy of the full email and include all headers (see item #4 for an examples). Please send one email only to abuse@alphatech5.com Spam Guide  This Spam Guide will introduce you to spam, enabling you to identify spam, determine the appropriate course of actions, and effectively handle spam complaints. 1. What is spam? Taken from http://spam.abuse.net: Spam is flooding the Internet with many copies of the same message, in an attempt to force the message on people who would not otherwise choose to receive it. Most spam is commercial advertising, often for dubious products, get-rich-quick schemes, or quasi-legal services. Spam costs the sender very little to send—most of the costs are paid for by the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender. There are two main types of spam, and they have different effects on Internet users. Cancelable Usenet spam is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users have found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant to most or all of them.) Usenet spam is aimed at "lurkers," people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups by overwhelming them with a barrage of advertising or other irrelevant posts. Furthermore, Usenet spam subverts the ability of system administrators and owners to manage the topics they accept on their systems. Email spam targets individual users with direct mail messages. Email spam lists are often created by scanning Usenet postings, stealing Internet mailing lists, or searching the Web for addresses. Email spams typically cost users money out-of-pocket to receive. Many people—those with measured phone service—read or receive their mail while the meter is running, so to speak. Spam costs them additional money. On top of that, it costs money for ISPs and online services to transmit spam, and these costs are transmitted directly to subscribers. In essence, spam is the transmission of unsolicited bulk email (UBE), unsolicited commercial email (UCE), or commercial postings to inappropriate newsgroups. For a spam glossary, please see http://www.turnstep.com/Spambot/glossary.html. Email Notifications, Newsletters/Special Promotions, Everyone.Benefits!™: Sometimes, site partners and end-users contact us asking why they received emails from Alphatech5.com or its affiliates. They may not be aware that they have opted-in for the mailings when signing up for our services. If you are an Alphatech5.com end-user and receive our newsletters/special promotions or your site's newsletters/special promotions, please verify your account. You may have opted-in when you signed up for the service. You can unsubscribe by following the 'Unsubscribe' instructions found in the email or simply update your account. A. Why do spammers send spam and why is spam bad? Spammers send spam as a form of free advertising, which is illegal in most cases. It is similar to a telemarketer calling you collect. No other kind of advertising costs the advertiser so little and the recipient so much. It can cost the recipient additional time and money spent on the Internet to view and/or delete spam. The recipients are not the only victims—ISPs are also taken advantage of. Many ISPs promote their free trial offers to the public, which prompts spammers to 'sign-up' and give the free service a try. The spammer then uses this opportunity to send spam to numerous email addresses, both valid and invalid ones. Then they abandon the trial account, forcing the provider to rectify spam complaints and monitor spam/abuse issues. B. How did you get on their email list? If you do any of the following, there is a good chance you can end up on a spammer's email list:
http://www.cauce.org http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html http://techlawjournal.com/cong106/spam/Default.htm 2. What can you do about spam? A. What you can do:
3. How to set your non-Alphatech5.com email account filter: Please consult your email service provider for assistance in setting up the email filters for your non-Alphatech5.com account. 4. An example of full email header information:
If you want to learn how to read the full
header information in order to trace the origin
of the spam, please visit http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers/headers.html. |
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