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THE SPAM WARS I have been writing about the Spam Wars for more than two years now. Once, I had even predicted that the Spam Wars could lead to the death of email marketing. I hate being so negative, but the trends have shown many members of that anti-spam community to be blind to justice. With the widespread implementation According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product s of blacklisting and
filtering, the chances of an ezine of reaching its intended
recipients is greatly dimished. The person who has subscribed to an ezine very likely requested the subscription themselves, and in most cases, they verified their intent to receive the publication (double opt-in). It is a fact that a person ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug. Examples of combination products may in ould verify his intent to subscribe
to a publication two dozen times, and still the ezine they had
subscribed to could be blocked from ever reaching their mailbox.
That is the nature of blacklisting and spam filtering ---
neither one cares if a person has requested to receive an
email or if a current relationship exists be lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together. ween the sender
and recipient. Both the blacklister and the spam filter will
arbitrarily block a message from reaching its intended recipient
based on a certain criteria defined by some system administrator
sitting behind a keyboard somwhere else on the planet. SPAM NASTY ENVIRONMENT In this spam nasty environment, there a here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe e the spammers on one
side of the isle, and the anti-spammers on the other side of
the isle. Stuck in the middle are the ezine publishers who
abide by all rules and guidelines for proper email publishing. Some anti-spammers deliberately target ezines because the ezine publishers represent commercial interests. Some people d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations. Combination pro ven use the anti-spam hysteria to settle personal
beefs with others and also to attack those with whom they disagree. IMPORTANT DISTINCTIONS Please note the adjective in use here, "some." This is an important distinction as others in the anti-spam community are folks like you and I, who are simply frustated with the level ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc f email aimed to our mailboxes for the purpose of selling us
access to p*rn or body enhancement products. There is no doubt as to the existence of a problem each time I open my email software. Yet, it has always been my argument that some of the spam solutions are worse than the spam situation they seek to solve. A solutio easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi n is not a good solution if it "throws the baby out
with the bath water." Some in the anti-spam community believe
that it is okay to sacrifice tens of thousand babies in order
to empty a couple tubs of water. My answer, "two wrong's don't make a right." THE BATTLE FOR THE MIGHTY DOLLAR Other commercial enterprises have aris nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically n that purport to be
possible solutions to the spam problem. Whitelisting is a fairly recent entrant into the anti-spam enterprises. And yet, other anti-spammers think that even the whitelisting companies are an evil to be squashed. Of course, their reasons for despising the whitelisting companies are different from mine. and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ The anti-spammers who hate whitelisting generally hate it because corporations and others with deep pockets are being permitted to buy a pass to send unsolicited commercial email. I am a person who is publishes an ezine and I offers support services to other ezine publishers. The people with whom I work are those who are p ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi blishing their ezines the right way,
by making sure that all of their subscribers are double opt-in
subscribers. I find paid whitelisting offensive because the publishers who are using double and triple opt-in are being told that the only way they can assure delivery of their ezine is to pay some third-party company an ex ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it. Following aspects would a ortion fee to get their ezines to the
people who have subscribed to their publication. This applies
not only to people who offer free ezines --- it also applies
to publishers who offer paid subscription ezines. You would think that if a subscriber has paid to receive the ezine, then that should indicate a serious intent by dd to the challenges in developing combination products: Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well? Which combination prod he
subscriber to receive the publication in question. Some are making a ton of money in the attempt to limit spam email. Yet many of their systems are so flawed that requested ezines cannot reach their intended recipients, paid subscribers cannot get the email they have paid to receive, and worse, people who have an exist cts are meaningful and rational? Which therapeutic categories to select? Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients? Do combin ng business relationship don't always
get their communications through to their business contacts
--- sometimes ending up angry customers and in lost business. Some of the blind to justice anti-spammers will read this and snicker, "Darn shame." What does that say about them? TWISTED PERCEPTIONS Although "some" anti-spammers tions increase the patient compliance? What would be the developing cost? How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen have tried to twist the
perception of my Spam Wars commentaries into a pro-spam
ideology, they have never been right in doing so. I do not
support spam, and I find the hundreds of p*rn advertisements
to be something I do not want in my email box. I also do not
want to learn how I can grow my phallic unit or my breasts to t? As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel unnatural sizes. Instead, my argument has always been that there absolutely has to be a better way to stop spam. I think highly upon the skills of the programmers who have brought us this wonderful world of the Internet. I just wish someone could come up with a better solution to combat spam --- a solution that does not pe ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality. Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust alize
those who run their commercial online enterprises with the
highest integrity. FINALLY, SOMETHING TO BE EXCITED ABOUT After all of these years, someone has granted to me my wish. Would you be at all surprised if I told you that for the first time in years, I am very excited about ezine publishing again? Someone has b y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products ought a number of existing technologies into an
umbrella operation which uses "pull technology" rather than
"push technology." PUSH AND PULL TECHNOLOGY Email is a "push technology". Quikonnex is a "pull technology." Through the Quikonnex system, you can subscribe to certain "channels", kind of like channels on your televis . As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de on.
"Channeling" (pull technology) allows the subscriber to
receive materials in straight text, full html, voice, video,
or interactive media. Subscribers are notified directly --- desktop to desktop --- when new materials are ready. Notification comes through the Awasu software, which is an RSS reader, and utilizes a t elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements. Companies that provide selfless information through particip chnology very similar to the Yahoo! or AOL IM. Within the Quikonnex system, subscribers do not pay to use the software or to receive information. Publishers do pay to use the service, but compared to other distribution systems, the cost to operate up to 100 channels is dirt cheap at $19.95 per month, and it is all spam-free tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products
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