Here’s an update on the Amicus Brief filed in support of Spamhaus.
As part of my massive spam/ham tracking project , I’ve been signing up for lists. Hundreds of lists. Somewhere north of four hundred and I keep adding more every day. I’m practicing safe signup – each retailer, newsletter publisher, media outlet, or other list owner gets a un…
Anne Mitchell pointed me toward a post on her Internet Patrol blog about how Flixster’s “invite a friend” functionality either asks you for or allows you to give Flixster your AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail passwords. Then Flixster logs in to your email account , finds your a…
Gmail gets a lot of things right, but gets one really important thing very wrong. I'm going to tear into Google momentarily, but before I do that, let's start with the good things. Praise before criticism, and all that. And rightly so -- I don't want to skim over…
From Ken Magill, published on Direct Magazine's website: Twenty-nine individuals and organizations have signed onto an amicus brief filed last week in support of anti-spam blacklisting service Spamhaus in its court battle against e-mail marketer e360 Insight. Some well …
Oh boy, the things you find on the newsgroups sometimes. Here's a link to a thread on the news.admin.net-abuse.email newsgroup where Spamhaus and E360 decided to battle it out in the court of public opinion on Friday. What's the goal here? This works to the advantage…
