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Reducing NDR Spams with SenderID tool

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First of all, what is NDR?

NDR stands for Non-delivery Report. These are emails. Basically, you receive this type of NDR emails because an email you sent to someone did not reach the intended recipient.

But why are you getting NDRs from mail servers for mail you NEVER sent? The answer: Spammers are spoofing your email address. They are claiming to be YOU when they send out emails (oh yes it can be done easily).

So let us say that your email address is user@domain.com. A spammer got hold of your email and then ’spoofs’ it. This means that the spammer is now sending out spam using YOUR email address. Because spammers send out thousands of emails – (some to wrong address), the mail servers of the domain will naturally send out a notice that the email could not be sent (either the reciepient is non-existent, or the mailbox is full).

These Non delivery notices via email are then sent to the sender’s email address. In the above scenario, they will be sent back to you. Even if you did not really send the email in the first place! And that explains why you are getting tons of NDR emails even if you did not send any emails out!

The internet community has come up with a way to combat or reduce these types of NDRs and spams. It is called the SPF (Sender provider framework). In simple terms, we put up a record on your domain that says email from your domain can only be sent out from a list of accredited email servers. This makes it hard for spammers that use their own mail servers to ’spoof’ your identity anymore. This will reduce the spam they send out, and also reduce the NDR spams you get!!

Interesting now isnt it? So how do you enable SPF on your domain? The solution is fairly simply as well!

Use Microsoft’s senderID tool and follow the prompts. For our hosted clients that need us to enable their SPF on their domains, kindly contact your account executive to start the process! Do let us know if this has helped you and your experience with NDR once the SPF has been implemented.

.SG Great Deals!

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BNShosting is offering a promo on .SG domain registration for the month of August only. All registrations for this month for .SG domains will only be 6.5 USD. This price does not include domain proxy cost (if you dont have a business residence in singapore, you will need to have the domain proxy.

Living with Liver Disease

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Living with Liver Disease a blogsite for Sheldon Josh Earl Medina, born October 8, 2007, was born with a rare liver disease, Biliary Atresia, wherein the liver does not have ducts. As a result, bile is trapped in the liver, damaging it and scarring the liver cells. Biliary atresia is the single, most-common reason for liver transplant in children. The liver soon becomes cirrhotic and eventually malfunctions completely, normally within one year of birth, which will lead to the death of the patient. When the liver becomes cirrhotic, there is no other recourse but a liver transplant, if the patient is to survive.

Sheldon needs a liver transplant that would cost about Php 3 to 5 million. According to Sheldon’s father, they are now mobilizing the whole family, friends and relatives to help raise the fund for the operation since their family was financially distressed and exhausted from almost monthly hospital confinement of their son. They are also trying to raise fund for the operation from the charitable institutions and foundations they appealed for financial help.

Ensuring your website is ready for Internet Explorer 8

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Consistent with our efforts to promote further interoperability across the Web, Microsoft will be releasing Internet Explorer 8 to render content in its most standards-compliant way by default.  Giving top priority to Web standards interoperability allows us to help web developers and designers drive toward the ideal of “write once, run anywhere”, freeing up more time to innovate rather than modify content for different browsers.  This commitment also addresses several development and design pain points from previous Internet Explorer releases.

However, browsing with this default setting may cause content written for previous versions of Internet Explorer to display differently than intended.  This creates a call to action for site owners to ensure their content will continue to display seamlessly in Internet Explorer 8.  As such, we have provided a meta-tag usable on a per-page or per-site level to maintain backwards compatibility with Internet Explorer 7.  Adding this tag instructs Internet Explorer 8 to render content like it did in Internet Explorer 7, without requiring any additional changes.

We are encouraging site administrators to get their sites ready now for broad adoption of Internet Explorer 8, as there will be a beta release in the third quarter of this year targeted for all consumers.  To learn more and get started, please follow the step-by-step instructions located at the following link:  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120024 .

Additional Resources

The following links provide additional information you may find useful:

·         Internet Explorer 8 main site:  http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie8

·         Internet Explorer Team Blog:  http://blogs.msdn.com/ie

·         Internet Explorer Developer Center:  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/default.aspx

·         Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit (for web designers and developers): http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/readiness/default.htm

·         Microsoft Interoperability Principles:  http://www.microsoft.com/interop/principles/default.mspx

 

Blogging Handson Workshop

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All DigitalFilipino.com Club members are invited to attend the forthcoming Blogging Hands-on Workshop.

Whether you are preparing a holiday season campaign or simply improving your website, I’m certain that this can be useful to your needs.

DigitalFilipino.com Club SME members can send 1 representative while Corporate members can send 2 representatives.

Individual club members can attend a one-day (or two half-day) session. You can choose from this training series list at http://digitalfilipinoclub.blogspot.com/2008/07/e-commerce-seo-blogging-social-networks.html

Please confirm for food count purposes.

If you are not yet a member, sign-up now at http://www.e-commercephilippines.com

Event Info Host: DigitalFilipino.com Club
Type: Education – Workshop
Time and Place Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Location: Alfox Internet Cafe
Street: Kamuning Road (corner EDSA)
City/Town: Quezon City, Philippines
Contact Info Phone: 09209508696
Email: digitalfilipino@gmail.com

Avoiding Duplicate Titles

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Most wordpress sites are now being penalized by Google because of the “Duplicate Title Tags” problem.  WordPress blogs will have the multiple links pointing to the same title tag in two locations a sample will look as follows:

/business-process/transcript-twisorg-dec-25-2007/‎
To Google, this fact alone makes your site look spammy and it will delist the page and result in your site not being found in search engine results. So obviously, you need to correct this. An easy solution to avoid this duplicate title tag would be to use robots.txt file containing the following entries:
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /*/trackback
Disallow: /*/feed
Disallow: /*/comments
Disallow: /*?*
Disallow: /*?
Disallow: /*page/*
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-contents/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-contents/themes/
Disallow: /trackback
Disallow: /comments
Disallow: /feed

ChinkeeTan.com

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Life Coach Motivational SpeakerChinkeeTan.com, is the official website of Filipino motivational speaker, Filipino entrepreneur, Filipino life coach, and Filipino corporate and lifestyle trainer Ferdinand “Chinkee” Tan.

Chinkee is into life coaching — supporting, encouraging, challenging, and guiding you towards your goals, you can – and will – achieve them in faster time and with less effort wasted.

If you would like to arrange for a free one-on-one meeting with Chinkee, you can visit his contact page within the website.