Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Check out this blog post from Wired editor Chris Anderson . Chris talks about lazy PR flacks sending him misdirected and unwanted press releases and other junk. He names names, too, posting a long list of folks he's never going to accept mail from ever again. One of those…

It'd take too long to get into the whole story, so here's the short version: Anti-spam activist David Ritz is being sued by a guy named Jerry Reynolds , apparently for, uh, performing DNS and WHOIS lookups. You know, asking public servers for public information that t…

I'm not even sure why this is garnering press coverage . But, that's not going to stop me from jumping on the bandwagon. The short version is: Gail Mortenson, a freelance writer from Washington DC, lost her AOL account, which she had been using for business. So, her r…

I ran across this interesting press release the other day. It's from McAfee, talking about how their Secure Internet Gateway appliance compares to a similarly-positioned device from Barracuda. When comparing the two devices for spam filtering over a two week period, the …

Back in March, Mark Brownlow posted some good info on his Email Marketing Reports site about list rentals, list purchasing, and co-registration. Is list purchasing a good idea? "With very, very few exceptions, purchasing a bulk list like this is a shortcut to email mark…