As the last few days of the year come to pass, I thought it might be fun to revisit the top five most viewed articles this year right here on Spam Resource.
"A New Zealand citizen living on the Sunshine Coast has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay a $210,000 fine for taking part in the world's largest spam operation. The fine comes after the 'spam king' has received fines from all over the world for his actio…
Today, I'm following up on my last post about how one must be able to have a way to tell the world about their super product and service. Jonathan writes, "I came across your web-site and I'd really appreciate some help regarding opt-in lists! I'm about to s…
Anonymous writes, "If someone can't use e-mail lists for marketing to potential customers how does one then share the message about a super product or service. I enjoy receiving information. If I do not wish to view the e-mail, then I simply delete. Please advise."…
I present to you a random email-related geek funny from 2002: "We're having a problem sending email out of the department." "What's the problem?" I asked. "We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained. I choke…
Yesterday, I pointed you at an anonymous blog , written by some angry random dude who happens to be really upset about Spamhaus. Anonymous ranty blogs are no fun; it's much more fun to mock the person behind them when you have a face go to along with the angry confusion. …
This hilarious anti-Spamhaus blog has decided that the best way to get the word out is by pirating content from other sites about how people who have been blacklisted for spamming are angry. Yes, it's true. People who have been blacklisted are angry. Shocking. Also, you …
The other day, somebody asked me what causes a recipient to receive the same message more than once. I run into duplicate message issues perhaps once or twice a year; not too often, but often enough that a recipient gets really angry at the sending ESP, assuming it's they&#…
The context: Over on Laura Atkins' Word to the Wise blog , she talks about the coming changes. The coming storm, if you will. How ISPs are fed up with sender practices. She rightly points out, that the rope ISPs currently give ESPs, is going to be used to hang a bad guy som…
A reader contacted me the other day, showing me an email message he had received from his bank. They had sent him a transactional message, and he took umbrage at the fact that the message did not have a way to unsubscribe from future messages. He contacted the bank, and the ba…
Good ISP info from Annalivia Ford, Christine Borgia, and Laura Atkins. Annalivia Ford: Why is my window fogged up? Annalivia talks about how ISPs actually tend to be less transparent in their spam filtering processes than in years past. Why? Because the edge case and bad guy…
Venkat Balasubramani has the story over on Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog (say that ten times fast).
Here's a good thing to read: Jamie Tomasello from Cloudmark reminding us of the basics. Permission matters. Co-reg is bad. Making assumptions in place of getting explicit permission. In her blog post , Jamie points out some very reasonable "don'ts": Having c…
Over on her fancy new blog, Annalivia Ford talks about the supposed "spam/anti-spam racket," like somehow ISPs want spam and find spam fighting to be a fabulous revenue stream (ROFL).
