Yahoo using Spamhaus lists
In case you needed more fuel for the fire regarding why staying off of Spamhaus's blacklist matters, check this out: Yahoo is now indica...Read More
Best Practices & ISP Rules
Over on Email Insider, Loren McDonald talks about the convergence of best practice recommendations and ISP guidelines for senders. Loren c...Read More
Here is why people get blocked
Today I got spam from something called "Bloglines" from IP address 65.214.39.152: Read More
Purchased Lists Are Still Lame
Check out this blog post from Wired editor Chris Anderson . Chris talks about lazy PR flacks sending him misdirected and unwanted press rele...Read More
David Ritz lawsuit
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 na...Read More
Address portability? Already got it!
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...Read More
McAfee vs Barracuda
I ran across this interesting press release the other day. It's from McAfee, talking about how their Secure Internet Gateway appliance ...Read More
Psst...wanna buy a list?
Back in March, Mark Brownlow posted some good info on his Email Marketing Reports site about list rentals, list purchasing, and co-registra...Read More
Opt-in Censorship?
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 deter...Read More
Getting it Half Right
I'm now utilizing “ second stage ” filtering, using the primary Spamhaus blacklist, the SBL . For me, it's an experiment. I just wan...Read More
Oh, please.
Another political group is complaining about the big meanies at AOL and Hotmail not accepting their mail. This is nothing new , but I'...Read More
Spam, the Documentary
You can catch anti-spam professional (and Internet for Dummies author) John Levine on TV tomorrow. He writes: Last year I helped some Can...Read More
The Real Spam Has Stood Up
In "Will the Real Spam Please Stand Up?," Kevin Stirtz disagrees with the statement , "until a user has opted-in to your em...Read More
Zombie Pfizer Computers Spew Viagra 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 ...Read More
More on the Spamhaus Ruling
From noted anti-spam professional and "Internet for Dummies" author John Levine: By my reading this is as close to a complete vi...Read More
7th Circuit Court Opinion on e360 v Spamhaus
Hot off the press, courtesy of the excellent legal document site SpamSuite.com . Mickey Chandler breaks it down: The default judgment stays ...Read More
SPEWS Memorial Day?
I see a very strange thing today (August 30th). APEWS, an "anonymous" anti-spam blacklist (whose listing policies are very broad a...Read More
An open letter to DNSStuff
Dear DNSStuff, You call your site “the center of the DNS universe” and position yourselves as experts on DNS, but it's time for me to ...Read More
Blowback sucks
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&#...Read More
MAPS Blacklisted? It's True!
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 send...Read More
Division of Permission
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...Read More
On the APEWS Blacklist
Lots of talk about the "anonymous" APEWS blacklist lately. Over on DNSBL Resource, I summarize everything I've seen on the top...Read More
The Virtumundo/Jim Gordon Affair
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 directio...Read More
Blah on Challenge Response
Richi Jennings breaks it down: Peter Brockman, and open questions on C/R success rate determination methodology. As Richi puts it, "...Read More
Where was the consumer?
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?” ...Read More
Blocklist notifications? Think again.
Infacta's "Messaging Times" posted a generally good article today on what you should be doing to minimize blocklistings. Exc...Read More
Ask Al: My email address is being used in spam!
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. ...Read More
Blink: 32 new spams.
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 ...Read More
Blogger listed on Spamhaus blacklist
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 a...Read More
TQMCUBE Blocking List Status
The TQMCUBE Blocklist seems to have been abandoned, and/or the creator and admins are missing in action. Over on DNSBL.com, I've collec...Read More
Even More on Confirmed Opt-in Best Practices
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...Read More
Know when to quit!
I sign up for hundreds upon hundreds of lists. I maintain multiple "hamtraps," collections of received mail that I actually asked ...Read More
Vonage did WHAT?
This has been making the rounds in the blogosphere these past few days: Vonage is taking months/years old addresses, submitted ONLY for a fo...Read More
Opt-in vs. Relevancy
I spoke at both INBOX and Internet Retailer recently, and at both events heard smart marketers ask, "Why do readers unsubscribe, ignore...Read More
Harvesting BAD! Grr!
More on why email address harvesting sucks from BtoB Magazine by way of Email Marketing Reports .Read More
Spamming That New Account
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 ou...Read More
Greetings from San Jose
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 o...Read More
Robert Soloway Arrested
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 ...Read More
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