Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Remember how I mentioned SPAM-L the other day? Sometimes you learn useful stuff there. After reading a recent discussion there about "forward to a friend" functionality and whether or not it might be legal in different jurisdictions, I saw Vincent Schönau offer up som…

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 outbound spam. "I work for an ISP in the Netherlands. Inbound spam isn't much of a problem for us, this is usually handled well …

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Virgin Mobile was found to have been sending email messages to recipients who had previously opted-out of email advertisements from the mobile carrier. "'To make sure you're still certain about this choice, we just wanted to …

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 social network of sending emails that made people believe their old friends from high school were reaching out to connect -- only to disc…

This morning, an anonymous commenter attempted to drop a truth bomb on my post about how Jigsaw was blacklisted by Spamhaus . (They still are , by the way.) In his comment , he points out that postal junk mail sucks (which I agree with), but he doesn't make it clear why i…

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 people that follow what I say. I enjoy this new method of interacting with people-- it's been a lot of fun. But, like every other way of…

Tom Espiner of ZDNet UK Reports. "The throttling of Waledac, which Microsoft claimed to have achieved by means of legal action last week, has led to no appreciable reduction of junk mail coming from the botnet, anti-spam organisation Spamhaus told ZDNet UK on Tuesday. &q…

Spamhaus reports: "Leaving a wake of over 12-years of criminal spamming and trillions of sent junk emails behind him, long time ROKSO listed spammer Alan Ralsky is finally behind the walls of a US Federal Prison. After pleading guilty to multiple federal criminal charges, …

My previous post talking about the Anonwhois.org project (of which I have no connection with whatsoever-- I just think it's neat) generated a lot of comments and feedback both in comments and in email. I thought I would take a few minutes here and answer a few of the more p…

Boing Boing says: "AP reports that authorities in Spain have cracked one of the biggest botnet rings in history, with three arrests made and more coming. The so-called Mariposa botnet appeared in December, 2008." Read more...

Annalivia Ford, the AOL employee most senders interacted with if they had deliverability issues at that particular provider of mailboxes, has indicated that she's moving on; leaving AOL . A sad day, of sorts, but maybe not -- with AOL's recent layoffs and the world bein…

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 side BL). Meaning, in short, it's a DNS-based list that you can check domains against. What does it tell you? Whether or not a domain i…