Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Here it is; the definitive page at Spam Resource, where I line up everything I have to share about list growth. The next person that asks me how to grow their list will be directed to this post. Part 1: How do I grow my list? -- December 1, 2010 Andrew Kordek of Trendline I…

Let's talk about Dan Balsam, lawyer turned anti-spam crusader . I've been glibly telling friends and colleagues that this guy is my hero, but Venkat Balasubramani rightly asks some important questions : Is he actually collecting on judgments? And what about his recent …

As the Detroit Free Press reported, a Michigan resident faces felony hacking charges for accessing his wife's email account sans her consent. Is this a case of a good deed gone wrong, or a line that never should have been crossed? I'm potentially on the fence, but over…

Marcel Lohmann, one of the admins behind the NiX Spam DNSBL , reached out to me to ask me if I would review this DNSBL. I haven't published any new blacklist reviews in a couple of years (and that's not likely to change any time soon), but I am happy to link to his Spam…

AOL hasn't yet mentioned this on their Postmaster Blog , but multiple sources are reporting that AOL's MX records temporarily vanished overnight. It's not clear how long the issue lasted, but based on the TTL (time to live) cache set for the AOL domain, the error pe…

As I have talked about before, backscatter is an annoying menace . Backscatter messages are sort of "ghost" bounces that come back to you, from sites that you've never sent mail to. It typically happens because a spammer is forging your email address or domain in …

Steve Linford of well-respected anti-spam group Spamhaus reports that Spamhaus is currently under DDoS attack by a pro-Wikileaks group. He has asked that the following information be shared relating to this ongoing attack. Steve writes: "In a statement released today on wi…

Engadget reports that "the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled [on Monday] that the government must have a search warrant before it can obtain email from your provider. Specifically, the court held in U.S. v Warshak that "it would defy common sense to afford emails l…

CAUCE Reports: "It’s been a long time coming, but Canada has an anti-spam law, and one, which sets a new world standard, and a tough, but fair, opt-in protocol for everyone in North America who sends commercial email and other electronic messages." FISA (Fighting Inte…

Spamhaus is warning that Wikileaks is redirecting web visitors to a mirror site hosted in "blackhat" network space that is currently listed on the Spamhaus SBL, and, as a result, the mirror site in question may not be safe to browse. Read all about it here .

Ken Magill reports that HolomaXx has dropped its suits against Return Path and Cisco IronPort. Read all about it here . ( Previously .)

Today, Return Path posted a short but very helpful set of guidelines that one should keep in mind when operating a DNSBL anti-spam blacklist . It's a must read.

Last week I shared a number of excellent list building tips from Andrew Kordek of Trendline Interactive . (Thanks again for that insight, Andrew!) Today, I'd like to share with you some more great suggestions on how to grow your list. Kelly Lorenz from Bronto Software …

Mark Brownlow over on Email Marketing Reports: In addition to expertly recapping the recent discussions surrounding permission versus relevance, opt-in versus opt-out, Mark adds his own succinct commentary to the mix: "The more you move away from the permission optimum (ex…

Sharon writes, "How do I build a list from scratch as a new company? Should I get someone to harvest them by hand so they are super targeted? Yes, I understand that spamming is unacceptable. Okay, so then how do I get a list or rather grow my own list?" My expertise i…