Leon Walker has been charged under anti-hacking laws aimed at preventing identity theft in the US.
The 33-year-old had suspected his wife Clara, who had been married twice before was having an affair with her former husband.
He is alleged to have used his computer skills to gain access to her Gmail email account on the shared home computer. Mr Walker discovered a series of emails which confirmed his suspicions that his wife was cheating on him.
With nearly half US divorce cases involving some form of privacy invasion such as the reading of text messages or social networking web pages, the case could have significant legal repercussions.
As her second husband had previously been arrested for beating her in front of her son, Walker handed the emails over to the boy’s father.
The concerned father, Clara’s first husband, sought sole custody of the boy and was forced into revealing Walker had leaked him the emails. Continue Reading
These tips from Gary S. help you can get the most from bulk email and avoid the grubby label of spam.
1. Employ a Permission-Based Strategy
It starts with permission.
You need to be allowed to send someone the email.
A permission-based strategy also means that subscribers are far more likely to have interest in your offerings.
You can either use a single opt-in, which basically means that you obtain permission from the subscriber during the initial sign up, or a double opt-in, a method that gives the subscriber the opportunity to confirm their interest through a follow-up email.
2. Get on the Whitelist
Spam filters are far from perfect.
Avoid your emails being blocked by being a safe sender and getting on the whitelist.
3. Keep Your Campaign Simple and Straightforward
Keep it short and sweet, and to the point.
Be interesting and engaging, and relevant.
This applies to subject lines and body copy. Waffling on leads to lost readership.
P.S. Interested in honing up on your copywriting skills?
Head over to Copyblogger, one of my all-time favourite Internet resources.
IT’S official – Australians living in the state of Victoria simply can’t live without the internet.
A new survey shows most of the state would give up sex, our car or even our partner before surrendering the beloved internet.
When given a list of things they could survive without for a month, seven out of 10 Victorians said they would rather give up their partner than their internet – higher than the national average, the Herald Sun reports.
Victorians also claimed they could give up chocolate or their daily coffee in favour of the worldwide web.
The list of things they were asked to rank in order included sex, their car, mobile phone, annual overseas holiday and landline telephone.
Internet users in NSW, South Australia and Queensland were less likely to trade their partner for the net.
Victorian families have doubled and even tripled their internet usage in the past five years, the Optus Family Communication Survey reveals. But only 26 per cent is reserved for work or study. The rest is spent browsing entertainment sites or social sites for personal reasons. Continue Reading
Thinking of doing an email marketing campaign? Then you might be interested to know that Gmail users have been shown to open more emails than other types of email account holders, according to eMarketer. Continue Reading
According to internetworldstats, there are (as of 31 March 2009) 1,596,270,108 Internet Users – that’s just under 24% of the world’s population. (In fact, there is a great post by Dave Caffey on sources of Internet usage data if ever you’re really interested.)
And according to a recent Radicati Group report, those users will generate 247 billion email messages per day in 2009. Most of it is spam, but that’s still an awful lot of email messages that might once have been delivered via the Pony Express.
“Technology has shaken up plenty of life’s routines, but for many people it has completely altered the once predictable rituals at the start of the day.
This is morning in America in the Internet age. After six to eight hours of network deprivation — also known as sleep — people are increasingly waking up and lunging for cellphones and laptops, sometimes even before swinging their legs to the floor and tending to more biologically urgent activities.”
