aol
Ask Al: Bad things happening?
Perry writes, "I keep coming back to re-read your comments about AOL being the good guys. I must admit, that when our ISP is on their b...
Archive
October 2009
article
Judge rejects TD Ameritrade breach settlement
In early 2007, Ed Falk , John Levine, and other trusted anti-spam and network security folks started to note that email addresses given only...
annalivia ford
Ask Al: The Strange Case Of The Help Request Gone Awry
Jeremy asks, "Al, Help! I submitted a support ticket to [an ISP] for my IPs which were getting tempfailed, and 24 hours later they were...
canada
C-27 Canada's Electronic Commerce Protection Act passes Committee Review
The Canadian anti-spam bill everyone is talking about, bill C-27, passed an important milestone on Monday October 26, at 17:30 when it passe...
blocklists
Top Five Tips for Dealing with Blacklists (Updated for 2024)
Is your IP address on a blocklist? What does that mean and what should you do about it? First, here's what you need to know about bloc...
article
FRIDAY LOLZ: BALLOON BOY SPAM!
The spam subject lines? Little boy trapped in balloon; Boy-balloon-madness; balloon kid’s full story; Balloon boy died; Little boy trapped i...
barry
Barry Don't Play That
Riffing on two recent themes here at Spam Resource, on the topic of ISP abuse desk/ email staff ( now universally called Barry ), and how so...
canada
Why do we need an opt-in spam law?
As you saw in my previous blog post , I've come out in support of opt-in being the legally mandated permission standard in Canada. I don...
canada
I Support Opt-In Legislation for Canada
There's an effort underway to undermine support for the Canadian anti-spam legislation currently in development. Why do people want to k...
419 scam
Another Day, Another 419 Scam
I must have landed in some scammer's address book, because I'm receiving some variant of this thing every day or two. Who is dumb en...
blocklists
Zombie Blacklists: Life Goes On
J.D. Falk expresses some legitimate concern about zombie blacklists over on the ReturnPath blog . Blackholes.us resurrected from the dead, a...
authentication
Auth Don't Fix That!
Over on Spamtacular , Mickey Chandler answers the question, "Our last mailing had 30 complaints at AOL. Will signing with DKIM and SPF ...
box of meat
Staying Safe Online
Box of Meat recently linked to a couple of bits of really good info from two different webmail providers, talking about how to stay safe and...
isps
Let Us Count Up The Fail
Let us pretend the situation is as follows. (I hope , for your sake, that the situation is not really as follows. If it is, your life probab...
list purchasing
A Twitter Conversation About List Rental
Yesmail: "Need an email list to kick start your marketing program? See Yesmail Direct's awesome promo for 100 free in your zip...
isps
Too Much Contact
As my phone rings for the upteenth time this morning, I grumble to myself silently. It's good to be a popular guy, somebody whom a lot o...
f2f
A message from me...but not!
Back when my wife Kate and I had our wedding reception in June of 2009, we hired a local photographer, the sister of one of our friends. She...
article
Spamhaus, Snoeshow spam, and You
From Slashdot: "Spamhaus [has] announced they are releasing a new list of IP addresses from which they've been receiving "snow...