A Note on Dutch "Tell-A-Friend" Regulation
Remember how I mentioned SPAM-L the other day? Sometimes you learn useful stuff there. After reading a recent discussion there about "f...Read More
ISPs: Preventing Outbound Spam?
Kris writes, "Hi Al, I am contacting you because I would like to receive some feedback (advice, tips) on how an ISP can help to prevent...Read More
Virgin Mobile Settles Spam Allegations for 22,000 AUD
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Virgin Mobile was found to have been sending email messages to recipients who had previously opted-o...Read More
Classmates.com Settles Lawsuit over Deceptive Emails
TechFlash reports: "Seattle-based Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the...Read More
On Defending Jigsaw & Similar...
This morning, an anonymous commenter attempted to drop a truth bomb on my post about how Jigsaw was blacklisted by Spamhaus . (They still ar...Read More
Twitter Has Spammers, Too
I'm a pretty heavy user of Twitter. I've got a few followers, I pay attention to what a lot of people say, and I know a number of pe...Read More
Spamhaus: Waledac Botnet Culling Had Little Effect
Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK Reports. "The throttling of Waledac, which Microsoft claimed to have achieved by means of legal action last wee...Read More
Alan Ralsky Goes to Jail, Does Not Pass Go
Spamhaus reports: "Leaving a wake of over 12-years of criminal spamming and trillions of sent junk emails behind him, long time ROKSO l...Read More
Is Online Anonymity a Bad Thing?
My previous post talking about the Anonwhois.org project (of which I have no connection with whatsoever-- I just think it's neat) genera...Read More
Arrests made in "Mariposa" botnet that infected 13 million PCs
Boing Boing says: "AP reports that authorities in Spain have cracked one of the biggest botnet rings in history, with three arrests mad...Read More
Quick Hits
Annalivia Ford, the AOL employee most senders interacted with if they had deliverability issues at that particular provider of mailboxes, ha...Read More
Identify anonymous domains with anonwhois.org
Check out this neat new project at anonwhois.org : It's domain data, published in a format similar to a URI DNSBL or RHSBL (right-hand s...Read More
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