NEW YORK (AP) — A spam-filtering company has a holiday gift for America's charities and nonprofit organizations: free one-year subscriptions to its software.
"Nonprofits can't necessarily avail themselves of cutting-edge technologies," said Eytan Urbas, vice president of marketing for Mailshell Inc., maker of the anti-spam software. "These are people who are working hard, a lot of them don't make a lot of money, for things they believe in. It feels like the right thing to do to support that."
Mailshell is giving away one-year subscriptions to its $30 desktop software product, which has to be downloaded to individual PCs. It works with existing e-mail programs to filter out unsolicited commercial messages, and lets users blacklist spammers who get through.
To get the freebie, members of nonprofit organizations must sign up at www.stopspamtoday.org. To be eligible, an organization must have 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service.