Ew, what a disgusting title. But, sharing needles is what it amounts to.
I've become a heavy user of Google Voice these past few months, ever since I got my invite and was able to set it up. Finally! A local phone number. (I kept my old, out-of-state cell number when I moved to Chicago a few years ago.) I tried to get by with Skype and other so…
My current state of residence is in the top ten! Whoo! The top ten of what , you ask? Why, in the list of states ranked by how much spam people in those states, receive, of course. "In 2008, Illinois had a spam rate of 92.1 percent, meaning 9.21 of every 10 e-mails recei…
So, if a bank accidentally sends you somebody else's information....they can now sue your webmail provider to have your account disabled? Uh, WTF? As Venkat Balasubramani says, thankfully "Google did the right thing in refusing to shut down the account or turn over i…
One of my friends is receiving unwanted email from a big motion picture studio, and can't make it stop. Continuing to send email to a recipient after they have unsubscribed is lame, and illegal. It is a violation of US Federal Law , just as sending emails without an unsub…
Please allow me to break from our regular programming momentarily, so that I may brag to you about the most recent changes made to Spam Resource and DNSBL Resource . If you're one of those RSS reader kind of people, feel free to swing on over to www.spamresource.com and c…
Pivotal Veracity's Deirdre Baird dropped me a line the other day, letting me know that PV has some very useful information available for sharing. In their ISP Insights for 2009 and 2010 whitepaper, they quiz top ISPs on their current and future plans with regard to spam fi…
Laura Atkins writes, "Late last week RPost sued Goodmail for infringing two patents. One patent authenticates content and delivery of documents. The second verifies the message was received by the recipient." Read all about it over at Word to the Wise.
Akhter writes, "Our company IP address X.X.X.X is on the dnsbl.sorbs.net blacklist. We have tried many ways of contacting the SORBS company but we have received no response from them. Is there a way to get delisted from their database?"
Steven Champeon says , "If your PTR contains or ends with IN-ADDR.ARPA, you're Doing It Wrong. Go read a book. That is all."
Today's guest post comes from Chris Wheeler , the Director of Deliverability at email service provider Bronto Software . No stranger to the email experience, Chris's past experiences have included building a deliverability program from the ground up at a major online re…
Patti Blagojevich, the wife of the embattled ex-governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, seems to have done something she shouldn't have with an email list. The allegation is that she kept the email list from the non-profit she was previously working for and mailed to it, try…
Planning to handle consumer data in the UK? Then it's time to learn about the Data Protection Act 1998. Thankfully, Wikipedia has a very helpful overview . What are the key takeaways? Data may only be used for the specific purposes for which it was collected. Data must no…
Adalbert writes: "Hi Al, I need to send emails from Outlook Express. I have a dynamic IP address. I have my own custom domain name. When I try to send, I receive this error: El mensaje no se pudo enviar, el servidor rechazó la dirección de correo electrónico del remitente…
Hey email senders, looking for some good advice? Here's a few things you should do or not do, if you want to walk on the right side of the line and enjoy email delivery success. Email marketing myths which should have died years ago: using "ADV:" in your subject …
There's a new feedback loop in town, according to Chris Wheeler over on Deliverability.com . It's being offered by Tucows, who is, among another things, a wholesaler of domain names and other Internet services to ISPs and web hosting companies worldwide. They do not sel…
Last week Ken Magill interviewed Jigsaw CEO Jim Fowler, quizzing him on his company's stance on selling lists of email addresses . Jim makes it clear that it's perfectly legal to do so. Jigsaw doesn't deliver the mail, he says. They faciliate the unwanted mail, I sa…
Chip House reported on the new Maine law over on his blog : "The law doesn’t specifically identify email marketing, [but] it does cover the collection and use of all personal information (also called PII) for minors under 18 without parental consent. An email address is PI…
From WebProNews : "Google's Matt Cutts answered a user question about how the company handles spam complaints in the most recent video upload to the Google Webmaster Central YouTube Channel."
I ran across this on Box of Meat the other day. PogoWasRight.org : Pitney Bowes pays $2.9M to settle ‘Blast Fax’ lawsuit: "When you buy a client list as part of buyng a firm’s assets, do you have an established business relationship with the clients that allows you to fax…
J.D. Falk writes about the history of the internet and the relationship between the 'net and advertising. "Oh, Internet. You had such potential when you were born -- darling of the research community, supported by the wealthiest military the world has ever known. And y…
Quick Hit: Today, Consumerist talks about Slate's Big Money blog, where Chadwick Matlin asks and answers the question, "Who’s to blame for these hideous Internet ads that just won’t go away?" Read it here .
The FTC recently announced what appears to be the first spotlight shined on somebody pretending to be Safe Harbor certified when they actually are not.
