Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

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 determination regarding what mail to block, I don't think Truthout's issues (being blocked at Hotmail and AOL) relate to their politics…

I'm now utilizing “ second stage ” filtering, using the primary Spamhaus blacklist, the SBL . For me, it's an experiment. I just wanted to see how well it works and what kind of mail it catches. I know that a large number of email addresses are now behind this kind of f…

MailChimp is looking for a few good....monkeys. Ha.

Another political group is complaining about the big meanies at AOL and Hotmail not accepting their mail. This is nothing new , but I'll mention yet again what I mentioned then: Delivering mail to Hotmail and AOL is hard only when you don't know what you're doing…

You can catch anti-spam professional (and Internet for Dummies author) John Levine on TV tomorrow. He writes: Last year I helped some Canadian film makers do a TV show called "Spam, the Documentary". Now US viewers can see it on Court TV tomorrow Sept 18th at 11pm…

In "Will the Real Spam Please Stand Up?," Kevin Stirtz disagrees with the statement , "until a user has opted-in to your email list, you are sending spam." All fine and good. Nothing wrong with a bit of disagreement. I'll prove it: I disagree! Do a…

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 a way to bypass the Anti-Virus, and there'll be an infection. I've had to call a big company here or there, having traced a spam…

From noted anti-spam professional and "Internet for Dummies" author John Levine: By my reading this is as close to a complete victory as Spamhaus could have hoped for. There was no chance the appeals court would throw out the default, since that would have been an i…