Webopedia.com defines “snailmail” or “snail mail” as the “normal postal mail, where an actual physical letter or package is delivered. The term hasn’t existed until electronic mail (e-mail) became so prevalent that there was a requirement to differentiate the two. Obviously, the term was invented by e-mail aficionados as a small barb directed at the relative slowness of physical transportation. Snailmail is sometimes spelled as two separate words, snail mail.”

The “technophile” or the modern dotcom generation would have ignored to see a snail mail in their mail box or inbox by now, do you?

Tree-huggers or the “dendrophilous” (fond of trees) or a “phytophilous” (fond of trees) might protest to get a snail mail and would have already opted in to electronic mails and made sure they also support the environmentally-friendly websites powered by solar energy to mention the least.

What about this snailmail version below?

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This Tutorial is Part of Atomic Blogging

( A Step By Step Guide to Blogging )

What you see above are the number of Spam messages I get so far on my blog! It’s HUGE! Arent they ignoring? To avoid and prevent all this spam you must use Akismet – A Free Plugin to avoid spam for your blog.
Before I start, Akismet is a free open source spam program online to help fight spam for wordpress owners.
Just follow the following steps to get started to prevent Spam on your blog.

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As an online business owner, you face treacherous Internet security risks every single time you’re online. Viruses, hackers, and spam await you at every turn. The reality is that these threats are always going to be a component of being online and doing business online. Unfortunately, they seem to be here to stay.

Given that, there are a number of precautions you can take to make yourself, your business and the visitors to your site as safe as possible. Here are 8 tactics proven to enhance your Internet security:

1. Virus Protection. Make sure you have the latest virus updates installed on your computer and let the software thoroughly scan your entire computer daily to ensure that no viruses successfully planted themselves on your hard drive. Set your virus checker to scan your email when it downloads, as well.

I use AVG Free to scan both my computer and my email. They also have a fee-based version that provides complete Internet protection. McAfee and Norton also offer similar products.

For spyware and malware protection, I use CounterSpy. The company that makes this software also has a new product to protect against viruses and spyware called VIPRE.

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