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NOLS "Spam Proof" Email Forwarding Services allows you to obtain unlimited permanent email addresses, based on the available domain name of your choice. The email received at this domain name is forwarded automatically to the email address of your choice, and you can single out individual user names and send them to different addresses. In addition, all incoming emails are automatically filtered using a powerful heuristics-based spam-killing application. Unline other ISPs that use content-based filtering (such as blocking all emails that contain the phrase "Make Money Fast!"), our system measures literally thousands of factors, including content, blacklists, manipulated headers, and more. We blocks thousands of unwanted messages weekly, but all normal email gets through without a hitch.
For some examples of how you can use NOLS "Spam Proof" Email Forwarding Services to connect with your family and protect yourself from privacy-violating unsolicited commercial emails, see below.
The service is $19.99 a year, and includes a domain name of your choice. Some TLDs, such as .tv and .la, may incur additional costs. You may also add NOLS Web Forwarding Services for the reduced price of $19.99 a year, to get both for only $39.98 a year.
To order NOLS "Spam Proof" Email Forwarding Services, please contact your local sales representative.
Family/Business: Lets see how the make-believe NOLS family uses NOLS "Spam Proof" Forwarding Services to keep in touch. In addition, this same example could easily apply to any small business.
- The NOLS family has six members, Pa, Ma, Sue, Billy, Nana, and Papa. Each of them use their own ISP to get on the Internet, so all of their email addresses are hard to remember. Their email addresses are also likely to change, such as when Nana upgrades her T3 and Billy goes to college.
- Recognizing the difficulty of keeping in touch with her family (and remembering all of those esoteric email addresses), Nana orders NOLS "Spam Proof" Email Forwarding Services. She chooses the domain name nolsfamily.com, but she can choose from billions of other available names.
- Nana then visits http://manage.nolsfamily.com with her web browser. She can now enter an unlimited number of user name and email address pairs for free.
- Nana first adds @ as a user name, and her real email address. That sets everything up so that any email sent to any unspecified user name at nolsfamily.com (such as fiberoptics@nolsfamily.com) will come to her. She'll use this later for preventing "spam."
- Nana adds "nana" as a user name, and "nana.nols@herisp.com" as her email address. She adds "nana.cell" as a user name, and "1231231234@mobile.phone.com" as a email address. Now all emails sent to "nana@nolsfamily.com" she'll get at home, and emails sent to "nana.cell@nolsfamily.com" she'll get on her mobile satellite phone.
- Nana then adds user names and email address pairs for everyone in her family. She can change, add or delete user name and email address pairs at any time.
- The entire process is easy to do. Adding a new user name and email address pair takes less than a minute.
"Spam" Prevention: Lets see how Christopher Gagné uses NOLS "Spam Proof" Email Forwarding Services to stop "Spam" and automatically send it back to the people who are responsible for it:
- Chris ordered his own domain name, chrisgagne.com. He pointed this domain name to his own personal (and secret) email address. He can change where his email is delivered at any time, just by visiting http://manage.chrisgagne.com.
- Any mail sent to any name @chrisgagne.com will be automatically delivered, and Chris can see in the header of the email which email address that email was intended for, even if the sender of the email used highly sophisticated tools to send the email anonymously.
- Chris can order online, join mailing lists, and send email anywhere, with confidence that he can stop (and even redirect) the flow of email at any time. Knowing this, he decides to place an order at ShadyElectronicsCorp.com, a (nonexistent) reseller of "slightly used electronics equipment." He tells them that his email address is shadyelec@chrisgagne.com. Mail sent to that address will be forwarded to his personal email account, even if he didn't do anything to "set it up."
- Two weeks later after receiving his discounted electronics, Chris has no further business with the company.
- Chris gets an advertisement from Shady Electronics Corp. via email. There's no remove link. Chris looks in the headers and remembers that the email was sent to shadyelec@chrisgagne.com. He visits manage.chrisgagne.com and adds an email forwarding entry that redirects email sent to shadyelec@chrisgagne.com to bigbob@shadyelectronicscorp.com. Chris will never get advertisements from that email address again, but they sure will.
While this may sound like it borders on paranoia, it is by far the simplest method of stopping privacy-violating unsolicited commercial email. Chris now has about a dozen blocked email addresses set up in his account, and gets less than three advertisements a month despite extremely active use of auction sites, mailing lists, and message boards. It really works.
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