2011: The Year in Spam
"Spam is Lame" of the "I Kill Spammers" blog has posted a pretty comprehensi…
"Spam is Lame" of the "I Kill Spammers" blog has posted a pretty comprehensi…
Jay writes: Al, I am getting the following message on several email related to AT&T: flph260…
I've written about Netprospex before. For example, talking about how I think their "opt…
I'm very sad to pass along the news that J.D. Falk has passed away after a year-long battle …
Today I stumbled across SBL listing SBL120550 , which says the following: "Several IPs in…
eWeek reports that Dutch internet service provider A2B has filed two police complaints against a…
A couple of years ago I posted here how my wife and I started getting oddly addressed email from…
As widely reported, MAAWG, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group put out a statement a couple o…
Nothing really wrong with the guidance in this blog post over at the Bronto Blog , but I can'…
Well, maybe it wasn't quite a sure thing, because you never know how a judge is going to rul…
Over on the Word to the Wise blog, Steve Atkins reports on something very alarming : That Trend …
Well, I knew this was going to happen eventually: Google now has global spam filtering for Googl…
The email authentication protocol DomainKeys Identified Mail, aka DKIM, is winding its way thro…
SpamTips.org, a website devoted to SpamAssassin Tips ( SpamAssassin being the wildly popular ope…
Gee, ya think THIS will scale? Over on the AOL Postmaster blog , a commenter tells a tale of…
I was asked today if Spamcop should be "trusted." After all, even the Spamcop Wikipedi…
I received an email the other day that went something like this: "Hello, A media site you r…
Who are you? Wait -- now I remember you. Long ago, I was visiting some far away city, biding my …
How come my list of third-party opt-ins from two years ago is now having problems, the question…
The Composite Blocking List, a very popular anti-spam blacklist, reports that the Rustock botnet…
But my email fully complies with CAN-SPAM, the argument goes. How can ISPs be allowed to block m…
Guest post by Neil Schwartzman . Reposted from the Word to the Wise blog with the permission of…
On March 5th, Spamhaus announced a change to its DBL (Domain Block List). They're now break…
Return Path's J.D. Falk reports on Comcast's efforts to let customers know when their ho…
Techworld reports: "Once the largest source of the world's spam, China has been gradual…
A few days ago, a Slashdot user asked , “ Is there a war on small mail servers? ” The admin went…
Box of Meat tipped us to this wonderful post detailing the best practices to keep in mind when c…
Hey, this is cool: According to Engadget , Cloudmark seems to be working on the next frontier of…
Do you know Romer? He's just this guy, you know. As he points out over on his WordPress blog…
There's somebody sneaky in my Gmail spam folder. Some company I've never heard of, appar…
Laura Atkins reports on this over on the Word to the Wise blog , and Dennis Dayman covers this …
What permission is: Permission means your potential subscriber initiated the request to sign up…
A spammer was kind enough to leave me a voicemail message today. I wanted to share it with you, …
I was talking to a guy the other day about the whole LinkedIn harvesting incident (or non-incid…
Over on Deliverability.com, Dennis Dayman shares a tale of spam and information about an uncoope…
I guess I’ve still got LinkedIn on the brain . In response to my complaint about being spammed b…
I'm LOL'ing over here after reading Laura Atkins' Holomaxx v. Yahoo update .
Wow! 500+ new subscribers! It seems an exciting and easy opportunity, doesn’t it? If you’re like…