In case you needed more fuel for the fire regarding why staying off of Spamhaus's blacklist matters, check this out: Yahoo is now indicating that they will refuse email messa…
Over on Email Insider, Loren McDonald talks about the convergence of best practice recommendations and ISP guidelines for senders. Loren correctly highlights that CAN-SPAM isn&…
Today I got spam from something called "Bloglines" from IP address 65.214.39.152:
Check out this blog post from Wired editor Chris Anderson . Chris talks about lazy PR flacks sending him misdirected and unwanted press releases and other junk. He names names, t…
It'd take too long to get into the whole story, so here's the short version: Anti-spam activist David Ritz is being sued by a guy named Jerry Reynolds , apparently for, u…
I'm not even sure why this is garnering press coverage . But, that's not going to stop me from jumping on the bandwagon. The short version is: Gail Mortenson, a freelan…
I ran across this interesting press release the other day. It's from McAfee, talking about how their Secure Internet Gateway appliance compares to a similarly-positioned dev…
Back in March, Mark Brownlow posted some good info on his Email Marketing Reports site about list rentals, list purchasing, and co-registration. Is list purchasing a good idea…
As I said to Ken Magill for his recent article regarding Truthout : From what I know of how spam blocking works, and how ISPs make the determination regarding what mail to block,…
I'm now utilizing “ second stage ” filtering, using the primary Spamhaus blacklist, the SBL . For me, it's an experiment. I just wanted to see how well it works and what …
Another political group is complaining about the big meanies at AOL and Hotmail not accepting their mail. This is nothing new , but I'll mention yet again what I mentioned…
You can catch anti-spam professional (and Internet for Dummies author) John Levine on TV tomorrow. He writes: Last year I helped some Canadian film makers do a TV show called …
In "Will the Real Spam Please Stand Up?," Kevin Stirtz disagrees with the statement , "until a user has opted-in to your email list, you are sending spam." …
Look, it happens to everyone. Run a large network some time. Put a Windows box, or two, or a thousand, on it. Eventually somebody will find a way to bypass the Anti-Virus, and th…
From noted anti-spam professional and "Internet for Dummies" author John Levine: By my reading this is as close to a complete victory as Spamhaus could have hoped for…
Hot off the press, courtesy of the excellent legal document site SpamSuite.com . Mickey Chandler breaks it down: The default judgment stays (e360: 1, Spamhaus 0) The money judgm…
I see a very strange thing today (August 30th). APEWS, an "anonymous" anti-spam blacklist (whose listing policies are very broad and of questionable accuracy ) has take…
I hate blowback . Or call it backscatter , or outscatter , if you prefer. Either way, it's no fun. If your mail server sends it, you're contributing to a growing proble…
If this isn't proof that it can happen to anyone, I don't know what is: Apparently MAPS has a compromised computer, found to be sending spam, and that IP address is now b…
Chad White breaks it down for Email Insider. Question: When is it okay to start emailing people info about company Y, after they signed up for emails from company X? Answer: I…
Lots of talk about the "anonymous" APEWS blacklist lately. Over on DNSBL Resource, I summarize everything I've seen on the topic , and include some info regarding i…
Internet email and security guru John Levine sums it up a lot better than I ever could, so I'll simply point you in his general direction . Update: John Levine pulled his p…
Richi Jennings breaks it down: Peter Brockman, and open questions on C/R success rate determination methodology. As Richi puts it, "Statistics aside, asking C/R users if …
My friend Neil Schwartzman asked me a question during the FTC Spam Summit a couple of weeks ago. He asked me, “Where's the consumer?” Neil, executive director of CAUCE (th…
Infacta's "Messaging Times" posted a generally good article today on what you should be doing to minimize blocklistings. Except... The article posits that "…
Gerald writes, " Help! I need to call the spam police and I don't know where to turn. My email address has been used to SEND spam. I know this only because an email sent…
Hi from DC. I'm taking a break from the FTC Spam Summit 2007 to swap laptop batteries and check email. Just as I got back to my hotel room, I got a page from a monitoring s…
It would seem that this SBL listing means that if you have a blog at http://(something).blogspot.com, your mail is going to be blocked by any site that checks the IP addresses o…
The TQMCUBE Blocklist seems to have been abandoned, and/or the creator and admins are missing in action. Over on DNSBL.com, I've collected all the information I have on the …
Down in the trenches, as it were, I see a lot of miscommunication and misdirection on the subject of confirmed opt-in/double opt-in. Here's some quick notes, thoughts spurred…
I sign up for hundreds upon hundreds of lists. I maintain multiple "hamtraps," collections of received mail that I actually asked for. So it's not spam, but sometim…
This has been making the rounds in the blogosphere these past few days: Vonage is taking months/years old addresses, submitted ONLY for a forward-to-a-friend promotion, and sendi…
I spoke at both INBOX and Internet Retailer recently, and at both events heard smart marketers ask, "Why do readers unsubscribe, ignore or complain about my emails? They opt…
More on why email address harvesting sucks from BtoB Magazine by way of Email Marketing Reports .
Q: How long does it take a new Gmail account to get spam? A: In my case, one day. May 26: Create account. Address has never been given out to anyone. May 27: Receive weird sp…
Greetings from the San Jose airport, where I am waiting to fly home after attending the INBOX Event. I was there to participate in a panel on deliverability and authentication, a…
I'm at a conference, so I don't have much time to blog about it, but helpful folks keep forwarding me this over and over, convinced that I need to be told. So, for the re…
It's time for me to go back to the drawing board for a new opinion on Spamcop's SCBL blacklist. In the past, I had consistently observed significant false positive issues…
I loved this post , and here's what I loved about it: [The prospect who got himself blacklisted] thought he could solve all his problems if he switched to MailChimp, because…
Mark Mumma, if you weren't aware, is the anti-spammer who sued Omega World Travel a/k/a cruise.com over spam allegations, and lost. It seems to me that this may have been a…
