Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

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 they're happy isn't the be-all and end-all of anti-spam research. C/R users may indeed be ha…

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 (the Coalition for Unsolicited Commercial Email) in North America, had a point . The whole point of thi…

Infacta's "Messaging Times" posted a generally good article today on what you should be doing to minimize blocklistings. Except... The article posits that "blacklist agents" should "contact senders that were reported prior to listing them with a…

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 under my name was undeliverable, and so the 'undeliverable' email report was sent to me. Th…

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 script I had set up. One of my spamtrap mailboxes was almost full and needed housecleaning. I logged …

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 of URLs found in messages, to see if those IP addresses are blacklisted. Read more about it here . …

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 topic.