"Spam is Lame" of the "I Kill Spammers" blog has posted a pretty comprehensive and delightful recap of legal action taken against spammers in 2011 . I'm g…
Jay writes: Al, I am getting the following message on several email related to AT&T: flph260 DNSBL:ATTRBL 521< xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>_is_blocked.__For_information_see_http://…
I've written about Netprospex before. For example, talking about how I think their "opt-out" guidance on email marketing is misguided (and how so many others feel …
I'm very sad to pass along the news that J.D. Falk has passed away after a year-long battle with cancer . I feel like I've known J.D. forever, and I most definitely had…
Today I stumbled across SBL listing SBL120550 , which says the following: "Several IPs in this /28 are sending spam to spamtraps advertising the services of ADT Home Secu…
eWeek reports that Dutch internet service provider A2B has filed two police complaints against anti-spam blacklist Spamhaus for refusing to terminate a provider Spamhaus alleges …
A couple of years ago I posted here how my wife and I started getting oddly addressed email from a supposedly legitimate company, addressed to an address we never use, addressed …
As widely reported, MAAWG, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group put out a statement a couple of weeks ago basically condemning email append. Find a link to the statement here ,…
Nothing really wrong with the guidance in this blog post over at the Bronto Blog , but I can't be the only person who read the head line and thought, hey, I'm a person, n…
Well, maybe it wasn't quite a sure thing, because you never know how a judge is going to rule. You just don't. Even if the law seems clear as the blue sky (and this one d…
Over on the Word to the Wise blog, Steve Atkins reports on something very alarming : That Trend Micro's MAPS blocking lists seem to be playing silly buggers with spamtraps. S…
Well, I knew this was going to happen eventually: Google now has global spam filtering for Google Voice . It works in a way very similar to how ISPs track the sending reputation …
The email authentication protocol DomainKeys Identified Mail, aka DKIM, is winding its way through the standards track, and seems to be the future of email authentication. Rece…
SpamTips.org, a website devoted to SpamAssassin Tips ( SpamAssassin being the wildly popular open-source spam filter) recently posted a wonderful DNSBL Safety Report , showing hi…
Gee, ya think THIS will scale? Over on the AOL Postmaster blog , a commenter tells a tale of his alternate method of finding a human at AOL to assist with his spam blocking issu…
I was asked today if Spamcop should be "trusted." After all, even the Spamcop Wikipedia page says that their blocking list is "controversial." Though, is it…
I received an email the other day that went something like this: "Hello, A media site you recently visited would like you to participate in their user-survey. Your input wil…
Who are you? Wait -- now I remember you. Long ago, I was visiting some far away city, biding my time in some mall or airport or something, some place where the only option for wi…
How come my list of third-party opt-ins from two years ago is now having problems, the question goes. What changed? I'm still doing everything right. I'm getting that qu…
The Composite Blocking List, a very popular anti-spam blacklist, reports that the Rustock botnet seems to have been disabled . Spam levels have plummeted as a result. Likely not …
But my email fully complies with CAN-SPAM, the argument goes. How can ISPs be allowed to block my mail? I comply! Here's how. Read section 8C of the CAN-SPAM law . It says:…
Guest post by Neil Schwartzman . Reposted from the Word to the Wise blog with the permission of the author and publisher. Josh Baer, former VP of Datran Media and current CEO…
On March 5th, Spamhaus announced a change to its DBL (Domain Block List). They're now breaking out a separate category of listings specific to spamvertized URL redirectors t…
Return Path's J.D. Falk reports on Comcast's efforts to let customers know when their home computers are infected: Pushing infectees into walled garden, redirecting them …
Techworld reports: "Once the largest source of the world's spam, China has been gradually fading off the list of the world's top spam-producers. Right now Cisco Syst…
A few days ago, a Slashdot user asked , “ Is there a war on small mail servers? ” The admin went on to state that he or she works for a company hosting their own mail server. The…
Box of Meat tipped us to this wonderful post detailing the best practices to keep in mind when creating one or more spam trap addresses or domains. Spam fighters: this is a must…
Hey, this is cool: According to Engadget , Cloudmark seems to be working on the next frontier of spam filtering: SMS spam. Give it a few years, and something like this will be ba…
Do you know Romer? He's just this guy, you know. As he points out over on his WordPress blog , he's been in the anti-spam field for the last decade, doing a little bit of…
There's somebody sneaky in my Gmail spam folder. Some company I've never heard of, apparently called RESMAIL, keeps showing up there, once or twice a week. The footer alw…
Laura Atkins reports on this over on the Word to the Wise blog , and Dennis Dayman covers this for Deliverability.com: Goodmail services are to be wound down on February 8th, 20…
What permission is: Permission means your potential subscriber initiated the request to sign up for your emails. What permission is not: I got a list of email addresses and I…
A spammer was kind enough to leave me a voicemail message today. I wanted to share it with you, so you could understand the delightful insight I receive from listening to differi…
I was talking to a guy the other day about the whole LinkedIn harvesting incident (or non-incident, depending upon your point of view), and this guy offered up that he had previ…
Over on Deliverability.com, Dennis Dayman shares a tale of spam and information about an uncooperative seller of email list data . Anybody else heard of this DeepWWW? Never heard…
I guess I’ve still got LinkedIn on the brain . In response to my complaint about being spammed by somebody due to harvesting of my email address from LinkedIn, the individual in …
I'm LOL'ing over here after reading Laura Atkins' Holomaxx v. Yahoo update .
Wow! 500+ new subscribers! It seems an exciting and easy opportunity, doesn’t it? If you’re like me, you’ve got a big list of contacts that you’ve “linked up” with on social (bus…
