Some of these acquisitions, like the e-mail lists, will help Yahoo command higher premiums.
Existing customers are the best place to start and are more likely to respond to e-mail pitches than customers from third-party e-mail lists.
This built on the first stage - of getting established online with things like Webcameron - and the second stage which was building up the infrastructure such as developing "opted-in" e-mail lists.
Campaigns have no problem spamming constituents, and they want to make it as easy as possible for voters to contribute, say, by encouraging those on their e-mail lists to download a mobile app.
Always on the lookout for opportunities, Gheorghe chatted up one of his limo passengers, Andrew Saxe, who turned out to be the head of a small company managing direct-mail marketing lists.
But sending direct mail to these lists for leads would once again mean spending money so instead I called magazines and other advertising vehicles in our target market and offered to swap our list for advertising.
"They e-mail and fax us lists of parts and say, 'Help us get rid of this stuff, ' " says Donald Pensack, Supergo's purchasing director.
Most bulk mail programs used to manage mailing lists, promotions and other forms of electronic marketing have a test tool that will work out what chance the messages have of getting through industry-standard spam filters.
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The company has our photos, our e-mail addresses, our birthdates, and lists of our friends.
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It also lists 3, 000 men called Pat who worked for Royal Mail over the years.
Furthermore, the act gave spammers a let-out: its authors, lobbied hard by legitimate marketing companies, agreed that spamming could still be deemed legal as long as recipients were able to remove themselves from mailing lists, and senders did not mislead them about the origin of the mail.
Non-profit Spamhaus maintains what are known as "block lists" which many organisations use to spot sources of spam and other junk mail to stop them clogging mail servers and inboxes with unwanted messages.
While the technique of routing mail via mail servers of net service firms might cause problems for those that use blacklists and block lists it did not mean that other techniques for stopping spam lost their efficacy too.
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