Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

A friend asked me the other day, what exactly is bulletproof hosting? Laura Atkins has complained before, on this very blog , that Google is a bulletproof hosting provider. Google doesn't exactly fit the criteria, but Laura's frustration was legitimate; stemming from Go…

Peter Seebach reports on spam he received from Netprospex , and how their lists might not be as "verified" as claimed. (Also note my previous post on bad advice from Netprospex , and feedback and opinions from others .)

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 his employees is also receiving spam from Newegg. I'm bummed; Newegg always seemed to be a great place to buy computers and electroni…

I had another thought today about Gretchen Scheiman's recent MediaPost article . (You can read my thoughts from yesterday here .) In Mickey Chandler's follow-up post , Gretchen commented and was careful to clarify that her position of "my inbox is open, come and g…

Gretchen Scheiman of OgilvyOne wrote a piece for MediaPost the other day, entitled, " Does Permission Need To Be Explicit? " It's an interesting read and she is most certainly entitled to her opinion. I'm not really going to debate the point with her; other re…

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 forwarded emails filled with lies and balogna keep resurfacing . Crazy stuff, yet people keep forwarding it to each other. Obama is supposedly…

In addition to my own post mentioning the lawsuit , a number of other wise folks have commented on the Holomax lawsuit(s) against Microsoft and friends. None of whom seem to think Holomaxx has much of a chance of winning when going up against the ISPs. Ken Magill: A HolomaXx W…

Laura Atkins beat me to it, writing about this new MarketingSherpa case study wherein a company decimated their list and actually grew revenue. Go read her taken on it over at the Word to the Wise blog .

From TechEye.net: [Email sender Holomaxx is alleging that] “Microsoft knowingly relies on faulty automated filters and equally faulty third party information to identify purported spam emails,” said the suit. “Even after Holomaxx informed Microsoft that it was not sending spam …