I want to request information from online companies, but stay out of their marketing databases. My company's Web site recently added a privacy protection tool to our domain which protects our database from outside access, and so far what we ve done seems like the perfect way to keep our subscribers' and site members' information private on a shared server. We highly recommend it for those who value the privacy of their Web site members. Immediately following the posting of our new privacy policy, we experienced an upsurge in new memberships unprecedented since the inception of our site. The obvious reason for the surge is that gaining the trust of your visitors is far more important than any other feature you could offer.
Some solutions go too far, however.
Take, for example, a service called SpamCop . In my opinion, SpamCop is abusive and should be shut down or discredited. It is not uncommon that victims of these automated complaints are shut down by their Web host without any investigation. And, that's shoot to kill all. Everybody is hot under the collar about spam, but few businesses are doing anything substantial and realistic to stop it.