Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

It's been just over five years since a particular goober harvested his LinkedIn contact list and spammed me and a bunch of other folks. Consider that the next time it happened, with somebody else doing it, was just now, I guess that means that it's safe to say that not…

Various online sites are reporting that Apple's iOS operating system version 10 is going to add support for the list unsubscribe header found in many email messages. In case you're wondering, it does sound like this unsubscribe feature supports the "mailto" ve…

Another spammer put under the microscope! Brian Krebs reports on the FBI arrest of Michael A. Persaud , reported to be one of the world's top ten spammers.

Ah,  Sanford Wallace . 1990s spammer, widely blocked and blacklisted, one of a few big bad spammers who made the rest of us realize that spam was a real problem and that we had to do something about it. Way back in 1999, in a Usenet discussion thread about Sanford, one of my fe…

"Send to Dad by Sunday midnight!" the email's subject line exclaims. My father is currently in hospice care. He isn't reading a lot of emails. He probably doesn't need this valuable offer. This reminds me a lot of the multiple "Don't miss out on M…

I have never liked capitalizing internet or web, previous versions of the AP Stylebook be damned. I guess I'm some sort of trailblazer or something, because now my way is the right way, because  the latest version of the AP Stylebook says it is no longer appropriate to capi…

Word to the Wise's Laura Atkins, like me, often gets asked about words to avoid in subject lines. Is it OK to use the word "free" in a subject line? I read that causes spam filtering! Not true, Laura patiently explains . Like Laura, I've been trying to explain…