What is SMS Blast?

We all know that mobile messaging or SMS (short message service) is a quick, cost effective and personal way of getting our messages across. However, its function doesn't end there.

SMS can also be used in delivering marketing campaigns or information to potential or existing customers, suppliers and employees wherever they may be, functioning as a very effective and direct business communication channel.

Simply put, SMS blast means bulk SMS. As one of the features of Bigfoot’s SMS Manager PRO, SMS blast allows users to send text messages or broadcast a single text message up to 30,000 recipients in just one sending. No need to retype the message.

How do you do this? Simply define your recipients by creating a group or importing a list. Then send your regular text message to the defined recipients. It’s really very easy, making SMS delivery and campaign management an absolute breeze.

To try the SMS Blast feature, download the Bigfoot SMS Manager here.

Spam continues to grow exponentially and is expected to account for 50% of the volume of emails received by an individual or business by September 2003 or earlier. Brightmail, the world’s leading anti-spam software company, made this forecast based on its record of spam attacks.

Brightmail also reported that offers for products continue to be the dominant type of spam, followed by porn. In June 2003, the offensive spam got over 20 percent share of the total spam in the UK and 19 percent in the US.

Because of its sheer volume and sometimes disgusting nature, spam has become such a hot issue. We are now seeing lawmakers, consumer advocates and Internet industry officials all coming together for a series of discussions on how to address the problem. The latest of these forums are geared towards harmonizing international efforts to cut back on spam.

Still, even with these encouraging developments particularly on the legal front, the general sentiment is that new laws alone won’t stop spam. It will be a big help but a global technical solution is still necessary.

In the meantime, to avoid or at least minimize the risks of being spammed, users are strongly advised to always exercise caution when giving out their email addresses. And if spam becomes unbearable, consider investing in a good Anti-spam solution. Bigfoot’s Anti-spam Solution can effectively filter out even the most sophisticated spam and is very convenient since there is no action required of the end user. The server takes care of everything.

Bigfoot Domain recently announced the launch of its new DNS Management service. The service, which sports a web-based interface, will allow Bigfoot Domain subscribers to edit their domain name records themselves, providing users with more control over their domain accounts.

DNS is generally considered as an acronym for Domain Name System, but can also be used to denote Domain Name Server or Domain Name Services. The main function for DNS is to translate human-readable domain names into machine-readable Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Basically, it is how computers find themselves in the Internet. It does this by creating an easy to remember name for your computer and associating it with your computer’s IP address. DNS had its first successful test on June 23, 1983 at the University of Southern California School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute. Since then it has become the system for “.com”, “.edu”, “.gov” and other top-level domains used by email and web users.

Bigfoot users with domain subscriptions can now take advantage of the new and free DNS Management service to manipulate their domain’s Name Server records, IP records, Alias records, MX records, and SOA records. Bigfoot users get to use the service completely free of charge for now, as opposed to other service providers that charge for the use of this particular service.

For more information on these services, visit Bigfoot Domain today.

Bigfoot Communications will be upgrading its email forwarding subscription plans this August without increasing its prices. The new enhanced plans will have higher limits and more features.

Premium and Ultra’s daily limits will now be 500 and 1,000 emails respectively. Aside from the increased limits, both plans will be able to support file size attachments of up to 10MB. Filtering and distribution capabilities will also be beefed up. A Premium or Ultra subscriber will now be able to set up 50 filters or distribute his emails to a maximum of 20 addresses.

In addition to the above, a Premium or Ultra subscriber will receive a free WebMail account together with his subscription. The free WebMail account comes with a storage capacity of 10MB and is capable of POP3 and IMAP.

Basic email forwarding, on the other hand, will also be upgraded. Its new limit of 50 emails per day will be 100% more than its previous level of 25 emails per day. File size attachment will likewise be increased from 1MB to 3MB.

The move to upgrade the email forwarding plans is in line with Bigfoot’s commitment to provide its customers with services that offer the best value for money. As the pioneer in the email forwarding industry, Bigfoot further re-affirms its leadership thru constant reviews of its offerings to better meet the needs of its customers.