Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Ken Magill, over on The Magill Report, had this to say about link blog Box of Meat : "I get a lot of story ideas from Box of Meat. It is No. 1 on my “favorites” list. It is the first blog I check every day because it always leads me in new, informative, unexpected directi…

In light of the various ESP-related data breaches we've seen, exposing various email lists to spammers and the world over the past couple of years, it seems this is something the email service industry ought to be keeping an eye on. A friend tipped me that Bill HR2221, the…

If you've ever received a spam email that had a bunch of random text at the bottom, text that didn't make sense or didn't relate to the rest of the email, you've seen hashbusting in action. Hashbusting is a spammer trick wherein they take blobs of text and app…

SOPHOS.COM.FELL.FOR.A.VERY.OLD.HACK.TODAY. I guess if you haven't been around for a while, you've never noticed that there are instances in WHOIS where you might look up a domain result and get a wacky hostname result back, too, because somebody on the internet though…

The current owner of SPAM-L , a long-time anti-spam discussion mailing list, announced on September 3rd that long-time subscriber Rich Kulawiec 's ability to participate in the list has been terminated. This appeared to be in response to Rich's caustic and threatening …

ARF (Abuse Reporting Format), a simple specification that enables senders of email abuse reports (like, spam complaints and feedback loop reports, for example) to easily and appropriately encapsulate those reports in a way that ensures the receiving site will have all the infor…