Free Software Offered to Filter Out Spam

November 25, 2004 | Read Time: 1 minute

Mailshell, a San Francisco software company, is working with the nonprofit site TechSoup.org on a campaign to help charities fight unwanted e-mail messages. The effort will culminate in Mailshell’s giving copies of its spam-filtering software free to American and Canadian nonprofit organizations that request it on December 15.

In the weeks leading up to the giveaway, TechSoup — a nonprofit technology site operated by CompuMentor, a San Francisco charity that provides technology assistance to other nonprofit groups — is conducting an online survey on the problems spam poses for charities, and posting articles with advice on how to check the influx of unwanted messages.

From November 29 through December 3, the site will organize an online discussion on what nonprofit organizations can do to ensure that their outgoing e-mail messages are not misclassified as spam.

Mailshell will be distributing its filtering software through TechSoup Stock, which provides donated and discounted technology products to nonprofit organizations. TechSoup recommends that organizations register with the site before ordering the software on December 15 to expedite their orders.

For more information: Go to http://www.stopspamtoday.org.

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NICOLE WALLACE

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.