ken magill
Who is this Ken Magill guy anyway?
A client asked me the other day, "Who is this Ken Magill guy anyway? Who reads his stuff? Does it matter?" I guess the answer to t...
Archive
January 2010
direct magazine
Ken Magill Leaves Penton
Long-time chronicler of the email marketing space Ken Magill has just announced that he is leaving Penton Media.
funny
Spam Complainants Are Sometimes Angry
People are, on occasion, very angry in response to spam. They sometimes send flaming emails filled with invective, questioning the parentage...
george bilbrey
Bad News in 2010, if You Suck
In the MediaPost article " Why 2010 Could Be A Bad Year For 'Worst-Practice' Marketers ," ReturnPath's George Bilbrey ...
comcast
The E360 Pantsing Continues
Laura Atkins writes today about the newly discovered settlement between 'email marketer' E360 and Comcast: "Today, only weeks b...
harvesting
Work-at-Home Spam, Scam or both?
Check out this wonderful story from the Minneapolis Star Tribune , wherein a dupe robocalls a reporter for the paper. The consumer watchdog ...
double opt-in
In-Application Email Signup: Ew, Really?
Yesterday, Campaign Monitor posted a helpful hint on how you can add an email list signup form to your Macintosh application. I would stron...
question
What is Zeusmail.org?
A whole bunch of sites have noticed seemingly bogus signups from email addresses in the zeusmail.org domain. Does anybody know who or...
pivotal veracity
Pivotal Veracity Acquired by Unica Corp.
Multiple sources are reporting today that provider of email delivery tracking and email rendering test tools Pivotal Veracity has been acqui...
brazil
Brazil Overtakes US as Spam Leader
Ed Falk points out that multiple sources explain that Brazil has overtaken the US as the source of the most spam. However, Ed goes on to po...
mailchimp
How Tradeshow Email Lists Can Get You Blacklisted
The other day, Mark Brownlow tweeted a link to an older MailChimp blog post , touching on the perils of trade show email lists. In that pos...
blocklists
The Beatings Will Continue...Forever
It seems to me that there are a few different reasons why you'd want to list an IP address on a blocking list. Proactive prevention of ...
matt blumberg
Email to Die in 2010
No, not really. But, "there will be at least 39 more articles in the mainstream announcing the 'death of email,'" s ays Re...
annalivia ford
AOOGAH!! DIVE! DIVE!
Have you ever told an ISP's postmaster, "The contents of the email follow all of the CAN-SPAM guidelines!" or "Why are yo...
bug
SpamAssassin 2010 bug
If you use SpamAssassin and today it's suddenly scoring every email you receive with at least 3.2 points, and it says that "the dat...