Quick Link: Looks like Backscatter , the annoyance of bounces you receive in response to something somebody else sent (usually spam), has finally made its way into the public eye. USA Today Reports: 'Backscatter spam' gums up many e-mail inboxes .
Over here, email marketer Dylan Boyd talks about the the DMA's "launch" of an email opt-out site. What, you mean, eMPS? That thing that has been around since at least 2005 ? Actually, since 2000 . This is just the same old thing in a shiny new wrapper. Not onl…
From the NY Times: The Federal Trade Commission won a preliminary legal victory against what it called one of the largest spam gangs on the Internet, getting an Illinois district court on Tuesday to freeze the group's assets and order the spam network to shut down. The g…
____ sent me an email today. ____ "would like feedback on my recent order." My recent order. The one I placed....in February. At first I thought it was spam. I didn't recall ordering anything from this company. I almost reported it as spam, until I decided to …
A few weeks ago, I got spam from some wine store I had never heard of: Randolph Wine Cellars. Located in Chicago, it looks like a neat place, from their website. Except for one problem: They seem to be spammers. There's a twist to this story, and in fact, it's what hel…
Over on DNSBL Resource, I posted a quick rant and link to the DNSBL best practice draft document . This BCP ought to be required reading for any current or future blacklist operator.
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Celso writes, "Can you please help me verify that my IP addresses are not on any blocklist?" No, I cannot, Celso. And here's why: It doesn't matter. You're going to be on somebody's blocklist somewhere. The IP address you use, the domain you use, the…
