Here's an update from Groklaw on the lawsuit brought against Spamhaus by e360. Good reading, good insight. As always, the comments from the peanut gallery contain a lot of armchair lawyering, much of it suspect.
I received the question yet again today: Who's been sued under CAN-SPAM? Let's take a look and see what our good friend, the Internet, has to say on the subject. Just last month, Earthlink won an $11 million judgement against a Nevada-based Internet marketing company …
John from the UK writes: We have recently -- the last 2 weeks -- become victims of a spamming outfit. They have borrowed our domain name and are sending out emails from random fictitious addresses within the domain. We know about it because of the bounce back messages from corp…
In March 2005, I was helping a top-tier ISP with an issue related to a sender utilizing co-registration. The sender wasn't a client of my (then) employer, but the ISP had asked me to assist them with an issue. When you signed up on this sender's site, if you opted-in, y…
On Friday, NetworkWorld talked about Google's new "Code Search" tool : "The company's new source-code search engine, unveiled Thursday as a tool to help simplify life for developers, can also be misused to search for software bugs, password information …
Be careful about giving your information out for sweepstakes. I signed up for some sweepstakes hosted by Peel.com on May 6, 2003. Like I always do, I gave them a tagged (unique) address, so I could tell how my address was used (or misused) later. Flash forward a few years. I…
Here's a lawyer's take on the $11.7 million lawsuit and summary judgement against the UK anti-spam group Spamhaus.
I was pleased to discover today that even the Chicago Police Department utilizes double opt-in for their newsletters signup . I wonder what led them to implement their signup form in this fashion? I've dropped them a line asking for more info, we'll see if they respond.…
It seems pretty basic, but I often get asked how to attach a file to an email campaign. Maybe it's just going to a handful of folks, but you don't always want the hassle of sending it to each person individually from Outlook. The problem is, you'll find that most em…
