Only buy (or for that matter download free) books that are relevant to your immediate needs. If it is a how to book that will teach you how to do something that you need to be doing right now, download away. For example, if you are getting ready to start a blog, look for products that will help you with a blog. Don’t buy things and say to yourself, “Oh, I know I am going to need this later.”

Spending too much money (that you probably can’t spare) at the beginning stages of IM has been the downfall of more beginners that I would care to count.

I’m sure you have seen the term “white list” when applied to an email list. When you sign up for a mailing list with someone, they encourage you to white list their address.

The simple reason they want you to do this is so that their email to you won’t get caught by a spam filter. “White list” merely means that you need to add their URL to your address book.

By adding this address to your address book, you are effectively telling your ISP that it is ok for that message to come through. It removes the possibility of that mail being “tossed out”.by a spam filter.

Spam has become a real problem and the ISPs and the e-mail services are struggling to prevent it. In the effort to remove the senders of these unwanted emails, they developed a “black list”. This is a list that contains URLs of scammers or at least who is believed to be a scammer. This “black list” is the reason for the use of the term “white list”.

While ISPs and e-mail services are continuing this fight, they sometimes go overboard and do not let legitimate mail into your mailbox. Again, this is why you should always “white list” mail that you want to be delivered.