guides
All About List Growth
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...
Archive
December 2010
law
Venkat Balasubramani: Portrait of a Lawyer Turned Anti-Spammer
Let's talk about Dan Balsam, lawyer turned anti-spam crusader . I've been glibly telling friends and colleagues that this guy is my...
email access
Spouse Can't Hack Your Email, says Michigan
As the Detroit Free Press reported, a Michigan resident faces felony hacking charges for accessing his wife's email account sans her co...
dnsbl
Have you checked out NiX Spam?
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 publis...
aol
Quick Note: AOL Inbound Email Issues
AOL hasn't yet mentioned this on their Postmaster Blog , but multiple sources are reporting that AOL's MX records temporarily vanish...
alan hardisky
Backscatter from Microsoft Exchange
As I have talked about before, backscatter is an annoying menace . Backscatter messages are sort of "ghost" bounces that come back...
ddos
Spamhaus under DDOS from AnonOps (Wikileaks.info)
Steve Linford of well-respected anti-spam group Spamhaus reports that Spamhaus is currently under DDoS attack by a pro-Wikileaks group. He h...
email access
Gov't Needs Warrant to Search Email
Engadget reports that "the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled [on Monday] that the government must have a search warrant before it ca...
canada
Canada Passes Anti-Spam Legislation
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, b...
spamhaus
Wikileaks Mirror Malware Warning
Spamhaus is warning that Wikileaks is redirecting web visitors to a mirror site hosted in "blackhat" network space that is current...
holomaxx
HolomaXx Dismisses Suits against Return Path, Cisco IronPort
Ken Magill reports that HolomaXx has dropped its suits against Return Path and Cisco IronPort. Read all about it here . ( Previously .)
best practices
How To (or How Not To) Operate a Blacklist
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...
andrew kordek
More on Growing Your List
Last week I shared a number of excellent list building tips from Andrew Kordek of Trendline Interactive . (Thanks again for that insight, ...
mark brownlow
Mark Brownlow on Permission
Mark Brownlow over on Email Marketing Reports: In addition to expertly recapping the recent discussions surrounding permission versus releva...
andrew kordek
Ask Al: How do I grow my list?
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 tar...