Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

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 consent and broke into their third party e-mail accounts to send promotional e-mails to the members&#…

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 addresses in filings, leaving it to the judge to point out that this was totally unnecessary.

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 call those? What does your email platform call those? You know, the bit where you put in DEA…

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 Ken Magill: His August 20th article talking to Kirk Gray of APUS, and his August 27th article expl…

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 nothing." From his August 27th article quoting another author's extreme concerns: "You …