Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

As I often say, listen to as many sources of information as possible, and learn as much as you can from all of them. Don't be afraid to search for a second or third opinion on how to handle a deliverability problem or list management issue. To that end, it's worth ch…

The SPEWS blacklist seems to have gone AWOL. A lot of people haven't realized this, and still believe they're being impacted by way of being listed on SPEWS. Over on my other site at dnsbl.com , I've posted two new articles that aim to help people dealing with this …

2022 Update: Long after this was published (way back in 2007), AOL and Yahoo have merged. The resulting platform is Yahoo Mail; so if you're having trouble delivering mail to AOL mailboxes today, this more modern guide to AOL/Yahoo deliverability is probably where you'…

(Note: David Hutchens contacted me today, looking for access to the Story of "Nadine" website. I sent him an email reply, which bounced. Gotta love those aggressive spam filters. I don't know any other way to contact him, so I figured I'd post about it here.)…

This isn’t the first time he’s run into legal issues over advertising. As I mentioned before , he’s had to settle with both Microsoft and the State of New York regarding allegations relating to spam. This time around, Richter, CEO of MediaBreakaway, (previously known as …

I have thirty-five domains registered with various administrative/technical contact addresses. I also have a bunch of other email addresses that I used to use for posting to discussion groups, old addresses that used to be on business cards and websites, etc. I even have some…

SMTP used to have a command called VRFY which allowed you to verify whether or not an address was valid. RFC 2505 talks about how spammer abuse makes both VRFY and the EXPN command pretty much worthless nowadays: 2.11. SMTP VRFY and EXPN Both SMTP VRFY and EXPN provide…

JC Writes: " I just discovered that SBC/AT&T is refusing mail going from me. Most kindly, I submit to you sir, that I have never, ever spammed, and my domain name, is older than when you started your good vigilance. I am though at your mercy. I am a poor computer con…

Below find the full text of the US “CAN-SPAM” Federal Anti-Spam law, courtesy of Al Iverson's spamresource.com . For a PDF copy, click here . To read my 2004 overview of the law, click here . S.877 CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as …