TECHNOLOGY NEWS Past 7 days Archives HERALD INTERACTIVE TOOLS View Text Version Email to a Friend Subscribe to the Boston Herald MARKET RESEARCH Enter company symbol below: Complete Market Summary RELATED TECHNOLOGY NEWS Virginia spam law nets first felony charges vs. e-mailers Report: Net telephony gains popularity Leaders promote democracy at tech summit Cerritos, Calif., goes wireless citywide Pa. boy charged with making Web threats Company promotes spam-filtering software By Associated Press Thursday, December 11, 2003 NEW YORK - 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 Friday at http://www.stopspamtoday.org .      To be eligible, an organization must have 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service.       ( © Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. )