Hi FullName,

 

I want to take this opportunity to wish you a happy holiday season.  No matter what your reason for celebrating the season, it is my personal prayer that my God blesses you richly right now and throughout the coming year.

This is our end-of-the-year message.  Therefore, this is your last chance to win a couple of highly useful prizes.  Read on to learn more.  Next, we remind you that ProgrammingMSAccess.com is rich in content for many different types of developers.  This reminder section shares a link with you for some of the valuable content at the site.  Then, we announce that a new set of spam filters are available.  We believe that our strategy for filtering spam is unusually effective.  See our SPAM Blocker section for the details on why our spam filtering is superior.  Finally, we invite you to take a look at our prior newsletters.  The newsletters are posted at the site for your convenience.  Bookmark your favorite editions for links to content of particular value to you.

 

 

Last Chance to Win Prizes

 

ProgrammingMSAccess.com makes a point of giving away prizes each quarter.  This tradition is one of the ways that we say thanks for visiting our site or thanks for joining our Database Developers Group.  As we reach the end of a quarter, such as now, you have your last chance to win prizes in a quarter.

 

This quarter we are offering a couple of great prizes just for signing our Guest Book.  First, you can win a copy of DemoCharge 2004.  This very interesting product is a screen recorder that generates animated .gif files that folks can play back in their browser.  We did a product review of DemoCharge 2004 and a sample recording that you can playback in your browser.  Take a look and tell to see if DemoCharge 2004 is good for your needs.

 

We are especially proud to offer a selection of 3 books and one DVD authored by the ProgrammingMSAccess.com webmaster, Rick Dobson.  This collection is indicative of the broad range of content that you can find at the site.  There’s content in this collection on Access, SQL Server, VBA, and VB.NET.  The full retail price for this collection is in excess of $200.  To become eligible to win the collection, all you have to do is sign our Guest Book.  We are only giving away one copy of the collection, but you could be the winner.

 

In addition to the above two prizes for Guest Book registrants, we are offering an additional copy of DemoCharge 2004 to one lucky DDG member.  To become eligible to win this prize all you have to do is belong to the DDG by December 31, 2004.  Since we have many more Guest Book registrants in a quarter than DDG members, you can more than double your chances of winning DemoCharge 2004 by becoming a DDG member on or before December 31, 2004.  At this site, our favorite motto is that “membership has its privileges.”  The membership to which we refer is membership in the DDG.  Use the link at the bottom of this section to learn more about the DDG, including how you can join.

 

 

DemoCharge 2004 promotion page:

http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/Contests/DemoCharge.htm

DemoCharge 2004 review:

http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/ProductReviews/DemoCharge2004Review.htm

DemoCharge 2004 sample demo:

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Book and DVD prize package page:

http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/Contests/BookDVDPack.htm

 

Database Developers Group section link:

http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/DatabaseDevelopersGroup/

 

 

Content, Content, Content

 

ProgrammingMSAccess.com is an author-sponsored site.  The site’s webmaster is the author of 6 books, 3 DVDs, countless articles in computer publications, and five annual seminar presentation schedules.  This massive body of content is the source of nearly all the content at the site, and there are literally hundreds of pages of content for you to review.  The site offers book excerpts, links for online articles, interactive tutorials and demonstrations, slide decks, working samples, and code samples.  While the site’s name is ProgrammingMSAccess.com, the site includes content on Access, SQL Server, VBA, ADO, VB.NET, and ADO.NET.  If you do database development or you program in VBA, VB, or VB.NET, chances are that you find some interesting content at the site.

 

If you like the content at our site, we urge you to take a look at the books and authors by the webmaster.  Our section on material authored by the webmaster features the table of contents of all books and DVDs, along with selected excerpts and reader or viewer feedback.  I hope you find this material another valuable resource at the site.  For those who care to buy one of the webmaster’s books or DVDs, we offer links to Amazon.com.  Thank you, in advance, for looking over the authored works by the author as well as purchasing any work that you find especially relevant to your needs.

 

The webmaster’s DVD publisher, DV Press, is offering a 15% off coupon for any of the three DVDs authored and presented by webmaster as well as those by other DV Press author/presenters.  As long as supplies last in December, we will send out copies of the coupon to anyone who signs our Guest Book.  If you want to sign our Guest Book for some other reason than receiving a coupon, please leave a comment to that effect in your Guest Book entry.  Thank you.

 

Books and DVDs by the webmaster:

http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/TheBook/

ProgrammingMSAccess.com Guest Book:

http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/mygb.htm

 

 

New SPAM Blocker Filters and a discussion of our filtering strategy

 

SPAM Blocker is our solution to filtering spam.  We have been hard at work perfecting SPAM Blocker for years.  One important strategy that we learned is to keep the filters in SPAM Blocker fresh.  On December 25, 2004, we published the twentieth edition of our filter set in SPAM Blocker 2.0.

 

With so many spam filtering programs on the market, you might legitimately ask what’s special about our spam filtering approach.  I think there are several important answers to this question.

1.        Our version of SPAM Blocker performs extensive content filtering in every part of a message that spammers can store their content.

2.        Our SPAM Blocker application currently checks each message against an in-memory database of about 2,600 spam filter values.

3.        We programmatically check incoming messages to look for combinations of filter values -- not just specific filter values that spammers can often tweak to bypass filters.

4.        We are constantly revising our filters so that those who purchase our upgraded edition can always download the freshest spam filter values to detect the most recent variety of spam messages.

5.        This strategy also benefits our standard edition purchasers because they always receive the most current set of filters that we found to be effective at blocking spam.

6.        We use our proprietary database of spam messages and contrast it with another proprietary database of valid messages to search for filter values that discover spam without throwing away good messages.

7.        Finally, we offer a “Good Sender” filter set that you can easily customize to make sure that messages from good senders are never filtered along with the spam.

 

Over the years, we have invested thousands of hours examining spam and contrasting it with valid messages.  As result of this research, we can offer customized spam consulting services to organizations.  For example, we can build custom filter sets for specialized individual organizations.  This can be necessary for the firms in some industries because spammers use terms that are common in the industry.  In addition, we can train your in-house spam administrators in how to create filters that maximize the detection of spam at the same time that they minimize the filtering of valid, non-spam messages.  We have specialized database and programming resources to accomplish these tasks, and we can train your staff in the use of our resources.

 

About SPAM Blocker:

http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/SpamBlocker/default.htm

Order SPAM Blocker now:

http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/orderform.htm

Playback download video clip:

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Our newsletter archive

 

Since June of 2004, we have been posting successive editions of our newsletter that goes to registered site visitors.  We strive to make each edition of our newsletter a valuable resource by giving timely information about content at the site as well as featuring selected resources, such as our code samples, tutorials, or book excerpts.  You can make sure that you get your edition of the newsletter sent to you as easily as signing our Guest Book and becoming a registered site visitor. 

 

Since we started publishing our newsletters at the site, we noticed that many site visitors view prior editions.  It is a nice way of learning about what makes our site special.  Also, each edition includes links to valuable resources.  By book marking your favorite prior editions, you can guarantee a swift, easy way of finding just the right link for some content that you want at the site.  We invite you, like thousands of our visitors, to review our prior newsletters for whatever reasons serve your needs.

 

Our newsletter archive:

http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/NewsletterMessages/

ProgrammingMSAccess.com Guest Book:

http://www.programmingmsaccess.com/mygb.htm

 

 

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