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 differing viewpoints. Alas, I'm traveling for work, so I didn't really have a lot of time to respon…
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 previously been in a somewhat similar situation before -- but on the other side of it. I offered up the o…
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 of them before, myself.
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 question decided to aim a scattershot blob of tweets consisting of a whole bunch of old "B2B so…
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 (business) networking site LinkedIn. So many email addresses! My suggestion, however, is to resist the u…
Way back on December 19th, John Levine posted Microsoft's response to the Holomaxx lawsuit . I haven't had a chance to read it in depth until now -- and let me tell you, it has been an interesting read. I'm not a lawyer (and I don't even play one on TV), but I t…
As we transition to the new year, I thought it would be fun to share with you the top five most popular posts on Spam Resource, based on number of page views in the past year. Enjoy! #5: Godaddy blacklisted by AHBL -- October 18, 2010 This disagreement between the AHBL blackl…