Archive

November 2010

brian krebs

What is bulletproof hosting?

A friend asked me the other day, what exactly is bulletproof hosting? Laura Atkins has complained before, on this very blog , that Google is...

netprospex

Netprospex: "Verified" really?

Peter Seebach reports on spam he received from Netprospex , and how their lists might not be as "verified" as claimed. (Also note ...

mike horwath

More Spam from Newegg?

My old friend Mike Horwath previously shared with us his experience with Newegg sending him spam. Now he's letting us know that one of ...

bad ideas

The Truth about Permission

Gretchen Scheiman of OgilvyOne wrote a piece for MediaPost the other day, entitled, " Does Permission Need To Be Explicit? " It...

bad ideas

Please Help us Kill Zombies!

I never noticed this until now, but my friend Jess Henig wrote an article for FactCheck.org all the way back in 2008, talking about how forw...

holomaxx

Holomaxx Link Roundup

In addition to my own post mentioning the lawsuit , a number of other wise folks have commented on the Holomax lawsuit(s) against Microsoft ...

laura atkins

Size isn’t the only metric

Laura Atkins beat me to it, writing about this new MarketingSherpa case study wherein a company decimated their list and actually grew reven...

holomaxx

Holomaxx suing Microsoft, Others

From TechEye.net: [Email sender Holomaxx is alleging that] “Microsoft knowingly relies on faulty automated filters and equally faulty third ...