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Spam Resource Spotlight: Annalivia Ford

We’re trying something new this time! I’ve invited my friend Skyler Holobach (whom I interviewed previously ) to take some space on Spam Resource and use it to interview someone, whoever she wants, on whatever topics she wants. Take it away, Skyler! My friend Annalivia is who I want to be when I grow up. She knows her way around all things email, from building an ESP to tracking down spam…
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Spamhaus Listing Myths: Fact or Fiction?

Back in the day, people used to complain that Spamhaus never really interacted with the broader email community. And to some degree they were right -- Spamhaus people sometimes avoided the public spotlight, for various reasons, many of them legit (they get threatened by bad guy…

Spamhaus Deliverability 101 eBook

Did you know? Spamhaus has a free eBook to help email marketers know how to do the right thing. With an introduction by Annalivia Ford, one-time postmaster for AOL (remember them?), this deliverability guide from Spamhaus will walk senders through the concepts of deliverabili…

Quick Hits

Annalivia Ford, the AOL employee most senders interacted with if they had deliverability issues at that particular provider of mailboxes, has indicated that she's moving on; leaving AOL . A sad day, of sorts, but maybe not -- with AOL's recent layoffs and the world bein…

WHOIS Privacy Protect -- What Spamfighters Think

As others have mentioned, a recent court ruling suggests that when accompanied with " intentional spamming ," hiding who owns a domain behind a "privacy protect" service (such as Domains by Proxy) could mean that the sender is in violation of the CAN-SPAM l…

AOOGAH!! DIVE! DIVE!

Have you ever told an ISP's postmaster, "The contents of the email follow all of the CAN-SPAM guidelines!" or "Why are you targeting my 100% opt-in emails?" You might want to reconsider that .

Did you catch that?

Good ISP info from Annalivia Ford, Christine Borgia, and Laura Atkins. Annalivia Ford: Why is my window fogged up? Annalivia talks about how ISPs actually tend to be less transparent in their spam filtering processes than in years past. Why? Because the edge case and bad guy…

IT'S A RACKET!

Over on her fancy new blog, Annalivia Ford talks about the supposed "spam/anti-spam racket," like somehow ISPs want spam and find spam fighting to be a fabulous revenue stream (ROFL).

Ask Al: The Strange Case Of The Help Request Gone Awry

Jeremy asks, "Al, Help! I submitted a support ticket to [an ISP] for my IPs which were getting tempfailed, and 24 hours later they were completely blocked! Why?"