Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

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 judgment is overturned (e360: 1, Spamhaus: 11,715,000) The injunction is overturned (e360: 1, Spamhaus: …

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 taken down their home page. When you go to www.apews.org , what you find today is a memorial message. …

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 problem. I don't know what's worse: All the blocked messages from the poorly designed Barracuda…

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 blacklisted. A recent post to the SPAM-L discussion list tipped me off. Someone there noted hits i…

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: It's not. It doesn't matter that they both have the same parent company, or that it's p…

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 its effectiveness as an anti-spam filter against my own spamtrap and hamtrap. Additionally, I'v…

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 Update: John Levine pulled his post down, replacing it with this text: "This post has been withdrawn due to objections from Vir…