Do you want to fund the lawsuit?

Mickey Chandler asks, " Do you want to fund the lawsuit? " Meaning, if you're splitting the hair very thin to make the case that what you're doing *must* be legally compliant, ask yourself: Do you really want to be that edge case that gets pulled into court? I…

Offers You Can't Refuse

Dylan from email service provider eROI talks about how he got an offer to sign up for services from a competing email service provider. And, as Dylan puts it, "they are using my emailROI email address that I stopped using over 4 years ago. And this sender is something th…

MAPS: A bit of ancient history

Check out this very old presentation about the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) , from October, 2000. I had already left MAPS at that point, but apparently, my personal brand was strong enough to leave my name in the presentation, as it indicates that RSS was created by me. …

Postini Bug and False Positives

Ben at MailChimp takes us through it : Postini causes wanted mail to not be delivered. MailChimp tries to work with Postini. Postini rather lamely says, "Yeah, they're known spammers." MailChimp pushes hard enough and long enough that Postini actually looks into i…

Thanks, James Gordon

Remember James Gordon? The guy who sued Virtumundo, and lost? If you don't remember, here's some history: Ken Magill laughs at Gordon here . Mickey Chandler talks about it here . Ed Falk talks about how Gordon lost so badly that Virtumundo was awarded legal fees .

Behold the Box of Meat

Might I recommend you check out J.D. Falk's " Box of Meat " blog? It has rapidly become one of my favorites, the blog I check first when it's time to start reading my way around the blog-o-sphere. Quick links (and insightful one liners) take you straight to th…

Sender Complaints about Spam Filtering

Laura Atkins of Word to the Wise covers the topic capably , covering both sides of the ISP/blacklist filtering coin. Here’s my take on it, based on my experiences working both as a blacklist operator, and consultant working with senders on how to improve delivery by doing the r…