Thanks to my friend Michelle from WatersWeb who in turn pointed out a discussion in WebProWorld, I was alerted to this issue. Apparently the new IE7 and upcoming FireFox 2 will start flagging sites as phishing sites. If you’re not sure what a phishing site is, it’s one of those sites who
pretend to be someone else they are not, copying all the original content and design from the real site.
I do not know exactly know how they classify you as a phishing site but according to some anyone can vote your site as one. Argh! Anyway, first checkout the suggestions Michelle has on her blog they are good suggestions. The other thing I suggest you do is also to learn more about this. There’s a document on Microsoft you can download to understand this and what to do
about. If it’s too technical, stay tuned. I’ll be pouring through this document to see what it’s all about.
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Tom October 19, 2006
Ugh! This doesn’t sound too good! Thank you Lynette, for the “heads-up” on this…
You see, I have a few clients — yes — CLIENTS — that still mark some emails I send them (through my autoresponder) as junk/spam.
Tom
Lynette October 19, 2006
Hey Tom, isn’t that scary? I know overall the concept is good. Something needs to be done with this phishing stuff but I think this is the classic thing where the smaller businesses will end up with the short end of the stick.
I have been researching more about this. There isn’t even a ‘standard’ list for these phishing sites where info is pulled from or submitted to. Kinda like email where there are all kinds of spam lists but at least the email list is established to the point where a few major lists have become the ‘standard’.
You know, it’s so weird that customers do that isn’t it? So far I haven’t had them list me as spam but I tell them clearly in every message and when they get the first one that this email is part of what they paid for since I notify them updates by email. Maybe that has done the trick somehow.