Hey! You can find the more modern, updated version of this question and answer here . Whoops @ the newsletter automation choosing this old article for inclusion in this a 2022 ne…
Michael Rathbun recently commented on my old 2007 post linking to his "Story of Nadine" website . He notes, "A while back I located an obituary notice for "Na…
Open relays are back! Spamhaus shares the sad story that history is repeating itself and spammers are once again finding and exploiting open relaying mail servers to shovel spam…
Over at Word to the Wise, Laura Atkins reports on Scott Richter's domain registrar Dynamic Dolphin getting its accreditation yanked. I'm not sure why this took so long. …
Andrej writes, "Hello, I would like to ask you to remove my IP address from APEWS.org blocklist. Thank you very much." Andrej, thanks for reaching out. I wish I could o…
(Hat tip to: Laura Atkins of WttW ) This is almost timely -- I was teed up to speak at a recent email/anti-abuse conference on the topic of Payday Loan marketers and what a chal…
Over at Spamtacular, Mickey Chandler explains how one single submission on one form resulted in his test account receiving hundreds of emails. This is a big part of why payday l…
Every once in a while, maybe every few days, I pull up my bookmark for the SBL Latest Additions and Removals over on spamhaus.org . It's usually pretty interesting to watch. …
Ars Technica reports: "Four plaintiffs filed a class-action suit in US district court in San Jose on Friday claiming that LinkedIn used its member's identities without c…
Here's my take on it, and here's John Levine's take . I really like John's breakdown of the clickwrap license issue and detail on how the parties included email a…
Do you know what a mail merge variable is? I used the term the other day in an email to a coworker and they were confused. An email list attribute? A personalization string? What…
Do you have any other links to articles about Gmail's new tabbed inbox user interface? Leave details in a comment and I'll update the post. Let's start with two from …
From his August 20th article talking to Kirk Gray of APUS: "The more I read about Gmail tabs, the more I think a bunch of folks are getting worked up over a whole lot of no…
Over on CircleID, John Levine shares his thoughts on the default judgment in Zoobuh v. Better Broadcasting . Though it's a default judgment, the judge actually seems to have…
Every couple of days, somebody new pops up on the DMARC-Discuss mailing list to ask some question or share an observation. It's great to see people interested and joining th…
It's Twitter's turn to jump on the two factor bandwagon. I'm sad that it didn't happen sooner , but still happy to see them joining the ranks of Apple , Yahoo, G…
I'm a big fan of two factor authentication. I've been using it on my Google accounts forever. Yahoo has it. Microsoft has it. Now, Apple has it, too! I'm very gla…
It's been a long time since I've noticed a new anti-spam blacklist (DNSBL) out in the wild. For more information, click on over to the DNSBL Chile article on DNSBL.com .
Brian Krebs reports on the arrest made in response to the recent massive distributed denial-of-service attack against anti-spam group Spamhaus. ( Hat tip: Laura Atkins )
Ken Magill posted today on " Why Fully Confirmed Opt-in Sucks ." It's definitely worth reading, and I hear where Ken's coming from. To "lose a subscriber&q…
It looks like email permission is not the only challenge for some payday loan marketers. Case in point: This weekend I ran across this story on Slashdot explaining how a Wordpre…
In Laura Atkins' blog post where she shares her thoughts on COI , she links to this amazing article from the New Yorker, where Matthew J.X. Malady shares a bit of insight abo…
You've read one point of view somewhere else. Now go read this different, very well thought out take on the subject . It provides a very good overview of the considerations s…
I'm very happy to hear that two-step (also call two-factor) authentication is coming to Microsoft, supposedly in the near future. Yahoo! and Google have had it for a while…
One of the UK's largest ISPs, Sky.com, has hired Yahoo! Mail to run their email infrastructure. For more information, surf on over to this page with current status and detai…
Can't blame this on the date, as it was posted days ago. This publication would like you to know that "the attacks were focused on a company called Spamhaus, which main…
Spamhaus sure seems to be in the news a lot lately. Or at least, I'm mentioning them on my blog an awful lot lately. The latest coverage concerns a rather large DDoS (Distrib…
I’m married to a feminist. My wife, Kate Harding , knows athing or two about rape culture, bad guys and misogyny. (In fact, she’s theauthor of “Asking For It” forthcoming from Da…
Ken Magill tweeted this today: If anyone still wonders why Spamhaus keeps at arm's length, check out the comments on this bit.ly/10e7i3y — Ken Magill (@Kmagill) March 20, 201…
It seems as though my website over at DNSBL.com has turned into a graveyard for dead DNSBLs. Over the past few years, I've observed more than a dozen blacklists go missing, …
A number of months ago, Steve Linford of Spamhaus replied to columnist Ken Magill on the topic of why Spamhaus editors don't typically provide their names. I highly recommen…
Steve Atkins of Word to the Wise has posted a very interesting story , detailing a little bit of spam history from just over ten years ago. According to Steve, a gentleman who us…
Over on the ExactTarget blog, Carlo Catajan explains the recently discovered (and since closed) Yahoo! Mail account security issue.
