=> 1. News From the Net => 2. Feature Article-"Sender ID: The Next Wave in Email Protection" => 3. Webmaster Resources => 4. Promotional Resources => 5. Other Ezines of Interest => 6. Just for Fun or Useful => 7.E Books and Things of Interest to Publishers => 8. Freeware and Shareware to Download => 9.Subscribe/Remove Information *************************************** Hi Kids, I'm up early this morning. I hate when that happens. You might say I'm not a morning person at all. No, you could definitely say I'm not a morning person. The first thing I do is stumble to the coffee pot, get a cup and go back to bed. It's as if it's a magic potion that will bring my body back to life and make my limbs move when I walk. Silly, isn't it? I mean it's just coffee but we sure put a lot of importance on it. There should be a restriction on my Drivers License that says "no morning driving before coffee". I'm really mean until that hot liquid starts running through my veins. The nice part is my "significant other" whom I call "George", and no that's not his real name, usually has coffee ready and waiting every morning as he's an early riser. Why do I call him George instead of his real name Jim? I dunno. I have a thing about changing people's names. Seem to do it a lot, but after a while they accept it and go with it. <grin> But hey, that's another story. Remember doing jumping jacks in school? With those crazy Gym Teachers and those ugly blue Gym outfits that snapped up the front. Yea, I'm showing my age now aren't I? Anyway, I did a workout the other day with Billy Blanks. A girl's got to stay in shape you know. After some kicking and punching he proceeds to some jumping jacks. They aren't easy anymore. Don't ask me why. When I was younger I thought they were stupid, all that flailing going on. Now, it's hard. Try it and let me know what you think. We celebrated "Teddy Bear's" Birthday yesterday. He's my Italian Greyhound. Teddy turned 6. He had a steak with a candle in it and even though "George" would kill me for sharing with you, we sang "Happy Birthday" to him after lighting the candle. Yea, I'm strange alright. If you need an editor who is reliable and helpful, knowledgeable and easy to work with and who is available for editing and proof reading, but also a writer for web copy, sales letters, and multi-media advertising and promotion, from radio to magazine, from TV to newspaper you need to visit my friend Larry's site http://www.WriteForMe.com - I love Larry, he's brilliant and his work is excellent. Tell him "Merle sent ya". If you need help with your website traffic and you haven't yet checked out John Reese's course do it. I wouldn't give you a bum steer here. It's excellent. Go to... http://MCPromotions.com/johnreese.htm I'd really like to see you over at the discussion board. Please give me your thoughts at http://www.merlesworld.com/webbbs/ Don't forget to bookmark the Blog. You'll want to pay an occasional visit for extra goodies I find. http://merlesworld.blogspot.com/ This week's winner for a free ad is...Ankesh Kothari of http://www.BizTactics.com, but he or she has been contacted. For your own chance to win fill in the survey. You'll find the link at the very bottom of this ezine. A winner is pulled twice a month. Enter now. Thanks for joining me, let's get to the good stuff. If you have any comments you can send them to Me. Merle http://www.MerlesWorld.com http://www.EzineAdAuction.com http://www.MCPromotions.com

Ask Jeeves Goes Local
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Findwhat Unveils Answer to Adsense
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California Enacts Anti-Spyware Law
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Will MS Own Email?
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"Sender ID: The Next Wave in Email Protection"

By Merle http://MCPromotionsPress.com

So what's all this talk about "Sender ID" and what
exactly does it mean to you as an email user? Sender
ID is the convergence of Microsoft's "Caller ID" and
Meng Wong's "Sender Policy Framework" (SPF).

What Sender ID does is verify that every piece of
email sent actually did originate from the domain
it claims to have come from, based on the sender's
server IP.

The majority of junk email being sent uses forged
sender addresses. This practice is also known as
"Spoofing." Spoofing goes hand in hand with a
scam called "Phishing." This is where someone
sends spoofed email, usually pretending to be
from your Bank, credit card companies or other
highly trusted organizations, trying to get you
to divulge your credit card numbers,usernames
or passwords -- even your social security number.
Once the phisher obtains this information, it is
used to hack into your financial accounts or make
unauthorized charges on your cards. For more on
Phishing, see this site: http://www.antiphishing.org/
Sender ID will hopefully prevent these types of
practices completely.

A draft proposal of Sender ID was sent for review
to the "Internet Engineering Task Force" for
consideration as an Industry Standard for email
authentication.

The task force's decision remains to be seen.
Microsoft recently threw a wrench in the mix by
deciding to demand a registration license for
their part of the Sender ID Program. Since the
new protocols need to be fre-ely available to the
public, this is causing additional problems.

Here's a quick breakdown of the Sender ID
process in a nutshell:

1) All email servers must publish the ID
address of their outbound email servers
in the DNS (Domain Name System)

2) When email is received, each system looks
at the incoming messages to determine if they
did indeed originate from the domains
listed.

3) This verification is determined by querying
the DNS for the list of outbound email server
IP addresses for that particular domain. If
the IP the email was sent from is not in that
list, it is most likely a spoofed message.

Remember, sender ID offers no guarantee that
your email will be delivered, nor does it solve
the huge Sp*m problem, but it will stop Domain
Identity Theft by spo0fers.

For more information, even an online wizard to
help you create your own SPF text record see
http://microsoft.com/mscorp/twc/privacy/spam_senderid.mspx
another great resource with some very handy tools
is http://spf.pobox.com

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Search It from SiteSell

Another great research tool that allows you to do a
number of different research jobs. There's a keyword
brainstorming tool, domain name tools, site legalities,
traffic building, keyword research, site research
and more.

http://searchit.sitesell.com/

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WebSite Audio

A whole page of great resources if you need to add
audio to your website. Bookmark it so when you need
it, you'll have it.

http://sonicmemo.com/web-site-audio.php

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Thumbshots

If you run any kind of search engine/directory site
and you'd like to include small thumbnail images of
those sites right on your page Thumbshots is for you.
F-r-e-e to use as long as you include a link back to
their site.

http://www.thumbshots.org/freethumbshots.pxf

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BidBoosters

Provides you with a quick and easy way to create
stunning auction listings, host your photos, and
boost your auction selling potential. 6.95 a month.

http://www.bidboosters.com/

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Useful Tips
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Yahoo Search Tip- Synonym Finder

Do you find yourself using the same words over
and over when writing something? Next time you find
yourself un-creative and too repetitive use Yahoo's
search engine to find synonyms for you.

In the search box type: synonym then the word

For example:
synonym automobile

Shrink My Link

I've found this really cool service called ShrinkMyLink
that shrinks long web addresses and hides affiliate
presence! This is great if you promote long URLs or
if you are an affiliate. Check it out - it doesn't
cost a penny.

>> http://www.ShrinkMyLink.com

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Ad Words Generator

The ultimate tool to creating H0T Selling Adwords
Ads. This software will have your campaigns running
on auto pilot in no time.

http://tinyurl.com/6qe64

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Everything Yahoo

If you think you know everything about Yahoo, think
again. Now you can find all of their great services
all located on one page. Nice.

http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/family/more/

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Girafe Search Engine

A search engine with a twist. When you do a search
you get thumbnail shots of each website it returns.
Pretty cool.

http://wb1.girafa.com/vsearch/

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F-r-e-e Ebook

How to Budget Successfully. 35 articles to guide you
through the process. By Terry Rigg.

http://www.homemoneyhelp.com/articlebookhtml.pdf

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F-r-e-e online ebook

Learning the basics of CSS and XHTML.

http://www.buniek.com/resources/css-xhtml/

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Internet Marketing: Special Report

John Reese is an Online Marketing Genius.
In this Free 16 page report he gives away
some of his best kept secrets for building
traffic to your website.

http://www.merlesworld.com/e-books/merle.pdf

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Cam Studio (alternative to Camtasia)

"CamStudio records screen activity from your Windows
Desktop into standard AVI movie files. It is an ideal
tool for developing videos to demonstrate features of
a new software or any other task that requires the
capture of desktop activity."

http://tinyurl.com/ypfeb

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StepVoice Recorder

I recently was in need of recording my voice but I
needed the files to be in MP3 format not Wav. What
a pain. Everything I found didn't seem to work for
me then I came across Step Voice Recorder. Simple,
easy and you can try it out for f-r-e-e to see
if you like it first.

http://stepvoice.com/index.html

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Calendar of Mozilla

If you use Firefox or Thunderbird you'll want to check
out this cool calendar add in.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/download.html

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