Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Here are quick links to all four posts in my past three part series (uh, what?) on CAN-SPAM Myths. CAN-SPAM Myth #1: Applies Only to Spam CAN-SPAM Myth #2: This Law Makes it OK to Spam CAN-SPAM Myth #3: Password Protecting the Unsub Page is OK CAN-SPAM Myth #4: Doesn't Appl…

Chad White, Research Director for Smith-Harmon, published a great post yesterday on why image rendering is important for CAN-SPAM compliance . In it, he highlights an example email, where some sort of rendering issue results in the unsubscribe links and sender information to be…

I just posted information on changes to DNSWL.org over on DNSBL Resource . Looks like they're moving to a for-pay model, for at least large volume queries. Can't say that I blame them; if it is costing them money to keep their project alive, at some point it seems inevi…

The outbound mail servers used by Godaddy hosting customers appear to be blocklisted by the Abusive Hosts Blocking List (AHBL). Over in this Godaddy Community Forums thread , a Godaddy representative named ChrisG seems to be implying to complaining clients that AHBL is unrelia…

What does Scott Adams think? Selling customer data like email addresses to third parties is like selling expired, rotting milk to a foreign country that has no laws against that sort of thing. It may be totally legal, but you're setting up the buyer for a future failure. …

If you ask me, payday loans are a permission challenged industry, when it comes to email marketing. Companies are buying leads, selling leads, working with multiple data partners, emailing at a high frequency, always pushing to get more mail out, find new signup streams, etc. …

A reader wrote in with the following question/complaint about Senderbase.org . I'm going to post this one anonymously. The reader wrote, "I would like to request a review of senderbase.org. I would like to know if I am the only one that has communication problems with …

Ken Magill has questions about my prior post. And yes, you do have to move to Holland.

Venkat Balasubramani recaps the history of serial spam plaintiff Asis Internet over on his great Spam Notes blog. Nicely ties everything together.