Perry writes, "I keep coming back to re-read your comments about AOL being the good guys. I must admit, that when our ISP is on their blacklist, bad things happen." W…
In early 2007, Ed Falk , John Levine, and other trusted anti-spam and network security folks started to note that email addresses given only to TD Ameritrade were beginning to re…
Jeremy asks, "Al, Help! I submitted a support ticket to [an ISP] for my IPs which were getting tempfailed, and 24 hours later they were completely blocked! Why?"
Is your IP address on a blocklist? What does that mean and what should you do about it? First, here's what you need to know about blocklists (aka blacklists). There are m…
The spam subject lines? Little boy trapped in balloon; Boy-balloon-madness; balloon kid’s full story; Balloon boy died; Little boy trapped in balloon; Balloon boy died; balloon k…
Riffing on two recent themes here at Spam Resource, on the topic of ISP abuse desk/ email staff ( now universally called Barry ), and how some people mistakenly expect unblock ma…
As you saw in my previous blog post , I've come out in support of opt-in being the legally mandated permission standard in Canada. I don't think it's all that big of …
There's an effort underway to undermine support for the Canadian anti-spam legislation currently in development. Why do people want to kill or gut Bill C-27? I'm having a…
I must have landed in some scammer's address book, because I'm receiving some variant of this thing every day or two. Who is dumb enough to fall for this stuff? Besides t…
J.D. Falk expresses some legitimate concern about zombie blacklists over on the ReturnPath blog . Blackholes.us resurrected from the dead, and looking for delicious brains to sna…
Over on Spamtacular , Mickey Chandler answers the question, "Our last mailing had 30 complaints at AOL. Will signing with DKIM and SPF help with our reputation there?" …
Box of Meat recently linked to a couple of bits of really good info from two different webmail providers, talking about how to stay safe and secure online. First, Michael Santer…
Let us pretend the situation is as follows. (I hope , for your sake, that the situation is not really as follows. If it is, your life probably sucks.) Your domain name is nonsen…
Yesmail: "Need an email list to kick start your marketing program? See Yesmail Direct's awesome promo for 100 free in your zip" mihaisecasiu : "doesn't th…
As my phone rings for the upteenth time this morning, I grumble to myself silently. It's good to be a popular guy, somebody whom a lot of folks want to call and ask questions…
Back when my wife Kate and I had our wedding reception in June, we hired a local photographer, the sister of one of our friends. She worked out very well, and we were very happy …
From Slashdot: "Spamhaus [has] announced they are releasing a new list of IP addresses from which they've been receiving "snowshoe" spam — unsolicited email di…
