One of the least-known new features at Experts Exchange is our new
Link Exchange. Our
Link Exchange program is beneficial to both sites in a couple ways:
- The number of resources available to users on both sites will
increase
- Site relevance is increased within all major search engines when a site
provides links to and from quality resources
If you would like to swap links with EE, just fill out the form at
the Link Exchange page.
I got an email a week or so ago that managed to
get past my filters and rules -- and for a change, I'm actually glad it did,
because I now have a spam-removal device that actually works.
It's called SafetyBar,
from Cloudmark Software. When it's installed, you benefit from all of the other
people who have marked spam emails, and they benefit from the new spam you block.
I tested it out over a nine-day period, during which I received a total of 1540
emails. 919 of those were marked as spam and put into a new folder SafetyBar created.
Of the emails it let through, only 14 were spam, and I was very easily able to
mark them, so they were added to the list that the SafetyBar community maintains.
Of the ones SafetyBar marked as spam, only 27 were emails I wanted to receive --
mostly newsletters.
The downside: the software is available only for Windows, and only for either
Outlook Express and Outlook. They offer a free 30-day trial, and it costs $4
a month for a subscription after that -- but given the amount of email I get,
and how much time it takes to get rid of the garbage, that seems a small price.
And not on the subject, but still something you should be worried about.
Yahoo news had an article a week or so ago about Google
hacking, which allows almost anyone to find information about you. I found
something that is supposedly stored on my husband's website, and even though
it's not there, Google has it cached. So be careful about what you post on
the Internet.
Almost all of the problems new users have at Experts Exchange arise
because they haven't read the Membership
Agreement when they registered. We can't really blame you; there's a
lot of legal jargon, and most of it will never apply to you. But there's
one thing you can do, and that's read the Help page section that
deals with the
MA.
We've taken the time to go through it and tell you what it means, line
by line, and we've put into simple sentences, so it should be pretty clear.
The Help page will also tell you a lot about the customs and unwritten
rules at EE, so it's worth taking half an hour or so to read through it.
