Bij Reuters lezen we dat e-mailmarketing behoorlijk wat te lijden heeft onder spam. Nu spammende personen en instanties hoog op de agenda staan, is menig bedrijf er bang voor ook onder deze categorie geplaatst te worden. Veel mensen verwijderen direct iedere e-mail die ook maar iets van reclame wegheeft, vanwege de grote hoeveelheid aan smerige en misleidende berichten. De reguliere e-mailmarketing komt hierdoor in gevaar, aldus de directeur van de Association of National Advertisers (ANA). Als spam eenmaal onder controle is zal de e-mailmarketing weer aantrekken, zo verwacht de expert. Om dit te ondersteunen heeft de ANA richtlijnen opgesteld voor het gebruik van e-mail als marketingmiddel:
The ANA, which represents more than 300 leading companies, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies, known as the "4As," are hammering out guidelines for using e-mail to market products and services credibly. A nine-point proposal they have drawn up defines spam as "unsolicited, bulk, untargeted commercial e-mail," and tries to distinguish it from more legitimate, direct online marketing. The proposal calls for commercial e-mail to be sent from working Web addresses, preferably ones which include a company or brand name to clearly identify the sender.
The ANA, which represents more than 300 leading companies, and the American Association of Advertising Agencies, known as the "4As," are hammering out guidelines for using e-mail to market products and services credibly. A nine-point proposal they have drawn up defines spam as "unsolicited, bulk, untargeted commercial e-mail," and tries to distinguish it from more legitimate, direct online marketing. The proposal calls for commercial e-mail to be sent from working Web addresses, preferably ones which include a company or brand name to clearly identify the sender.
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De rechter gaf, naast het verbod, Multikabel de opdracht een rectificatie te plaatsen, die inmiddels is te vinden op de site van de provider. De tekst van de rectificatie is door de rechter bepaald en moet twee maanden online blijven. Het bedrijf heeft aangekondigd de uitspraak te accepteren en wil de discussie achter zich laten. Aanvankelijk wilde KPN in deze rechtszaak ook het gebruik van de naam X-Stream door Multikabel voor internettoegang stoppen. Het zou te veel lijken op MxStream, de naam die KPN ooit gebruikte voor haar ADSL-diensten. Multikabel heeft de naam vorige week aangepast, waarop KPN de eis liet vallen.
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As an independent company, XGI's new mission is to focus more on discrete processors instead of considering the constraints of a core that must also go into one of SiS' low-cost chip sets, XGI's executives said.
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