March 2010

Remember how I mentioned SPAM-L the other day? Sometimes you learn useful stuff there. After reading a recent discussion there about "f...

March 31, 2010

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...

March 22, 2010

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Virgin Mobile was found to have been sending email messages to recipients who had previously opted-o...

March 18, 2010

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...

March 14, 2010

This morning, an anonymous commenter attempted to drop a truth bomb on my post about how Jigsaw was blacklisted by Spamhaus . (They still ar...

March 13, 2010

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...

March 9, 2010

Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK Reports. "The throttling of Waledac, which Microsoft claimed to have achieved by means of legal action last wee...

March 5, 2010

Spamhaus reports: "Leaving a wake of over 12-years of criminal spamming and trillions of sent junk emails behind him, long time ROKSO l...

March 4, 2010

My previous post talking about the Anonwhois.org project (of which I have no connection with whatsoever-- I just think it's neat) genera...

March 3, 2010

Boing Boing says: "AP reports that authorities in Spain have cracked one of the biggest botnet rings in history, with three arrests mad...

March 2, 2010

Annalivia Ford, the AOL employee most senders interacted with if they had deliverability issues at that particular provider of mailboxes, ha...

March 2, 2010

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...

March 1, 2010