Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

I thought I would take a moment to follow-up on my recent post ( Bad Advice in the B2B Space ) covering Netprospex's suggestion that "opt-out" is good enough. It seems as though more and more folks have been expressing opinions on Netprospex's advice and even …

Jeremy writes, " Hey, Al! I was wondering if you could help me make a case for adding additional received headers to outbound messages. At the company I work for, one of our technologists convinced the head guy that we should try adding additional unique received headers t…

ClickZ reported on February 18th that "Peter Horan's two-year run as Goodmail's CEO came to an end on Feb. 12, though the Internet marketing veteran will stay on as chairman for the certified e-mail service provider. Speaking with ClickZ late Thursday afternoon, Ho…

"B to B Online" shares some really awful advice from Gary Halliwell and Mark Feldman of NetProspex about how opt-out is supposedly the way to go in the B2B (business to business) email marketing realm. They start out by banging the CAN-SPAM drum (make sure you're…

Kevin Trudeau, infomercial peddler of miracle cures (and who knows what else), narrowly avoided jail on Thursday after being cited for contempt over his recent attempt to incite friends and followers to harass the judge presiding over his trial.

Laura Atkins hipped me to this report from SPAMFighter about Tagged.com winning a lawsuit against a spammer, somebody who was "victimizing members of Tagged.com by dispatching spam e-mails that contained web-links directing users to a dating site." Blah blah blah, s…

Websense reports that in the latter half of 2009: 13.7 percent of searches for trending news/buzz words (as defined by Yahoo Buzz & Google Trends) lead to malware, 95 percent of user-generated comments to blogs, chat rooms and message boards are spam or malicious, 35 per…

As others have mentioned, a recent court ruling suggests that when accompanied with " intentional spamming ," hiding who owns a domain behind a "privacy protect" service (such as Domains by Proxy) could mean that the sender is in violation of the CAN-SPAM l…

Laura Atkins just announced the Word to the Wise Delivery Wiki , a cool new deliverability resource. Very cool! My Delicious links account isn't anywhere near as awesome as the WTTW Wiki, but it's still out there and it's something that I use every day. Looking f…