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Yahoo using Spamhaus lists

In case you needed more fuel for the fire regarding why staying off of Spamhaus's blacklist …

David Ritz lawsuit

It'd take too long to get into the whole story, so here's the short version: Anti-spam a…

McAfee vs Barracuda

I ran across this interesting press release the other day. It's from McAfee, talking about …

Psst...wanna buy a list?

Back in March, Mark Brownlow posted some good info on his Email Marketing Reports site about li…

Opt-in Censorship?

As I said to Ken Magill for his recent article regarding Truthout : From what I know of how spam…

Getting it Half Right

I'm now utilizing “ second stage ” filtering, using the primary Spamhaus blacklist, the SBL …

Monkeys!

MailChimp is looking for a few good....monkeys. Ha.

Oh, please.

Another political group is complaining about the big meanies at AOL and Hotmail not accepting t…

Spam, the Documentary

You can catch anti-spam professional (and Internet for Dummies author) John Levine on TV tomorr…

SPEWS Memorial Day?

I see a very strange thing today (August 30th). APEWS, an "anonymous" anti-spam blackl…

An open letter to DNSStuff

Dear DNSStuff, You call your site “the center of the DNS universe” and position yourselves as …

Blowback sucks

I hate blowback . Or call it backscatter , or outscatter , if you prefer. Either way, it's n…

On the APEWS Blacklist

Lots of talk about the "anonymous" APEWS blacklist lately. Over on DNSBL Resource, I s…

Where was the consumer?

My friend Neil Schwartzman asked me a question during the FTC Spam Summit a couple of weeks ago…

Blink: 32 new spams.

Hi from DC. I'm taking a break from the FTC Spam Summit 2007 to swap laptop batteries and ch…

Vonage did WHAT?

This has been making the rounds in the blogosphere these past few days: Vonage is taking months/…

Harvesting BAD! Grr!

More on why email address harvesting sucks from BtoB Magazine by way of Email Marketing Reports…

Spamming That New Account

Q: How long does it take a new Gmail account to get spam? A: In my case, one day. May 26: Cre…

Greetings from San Jose

Greetings from the San Jose airport, where I am waiting to fly home after attending the INBOX Ev…

Robert Soloway Arrested

I'm at a conference, so I don't have much time to blog about it, but helpful folks keep …

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