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Making it Easy to Unsubscribe (#1)

Found on the web:  Gina Lofaro explains the user experience of finding it hard to unsubscribe . What galls me is that the list owner actually decided it was wise to argue the law with an angry subscriber. Knock that off! If she wants off the list, say OK, thank you, and it has been handled. She might not be a lawyer, but neither are you, and if you want to have any hope of selling her someth…
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Two New Zealand Spammers Fined

Vincent Hannah of Spamhaus reports : "Two New Zealanders well known to Spamhaus have been fined for their roles in the biggest pharmaceutical spamming operation in the history of the internet, officials of the nation's Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) said on Monda…

Judge rejects TD Ameritrade breach settlement

In early 2007, Ed Falk , John Levine, and other trusted anti-spam and network security folks started to note that email addresses given only to TD Ameritrade were beginning to receive spam from unrelated entities.

FRIDAY LOLZ: BALLOON BOY SPAM!

The spam subject lines? Little boy trapped in balloon; Boy-balloon-madness; balloon kid’s full story; Balloon boy died; Little boy trapped in balloon; Balloon boy died; balloon kid’s full story; Boy-balloon-madness; Drama with balloon(exclusive). I missed the balloon boy dra…

Spamhaus, Snoeshow spam, and You

From Slashdot: "Spamhaus [has] announced they are releasing a new list of IP addresses from which they've been receiving "snowshoe" spam — unsolicited email distributed across many IPs and domains in order to avoid triggering volume-based filters." The…

Symantec Says Illinois is #5

My current state of residence is in the top ten! Whoo! The top ten of what , you ask? Why, in the list of states ranked by how much spam people in those states, receive, of course.  "In 2008, Illinois had a spam rate of 92.1 percent, meaning 9.21 of every 10 e-mails recei…

Backscatter Goes Mainstream

Quick Link: Looks like Backscatter , the annoyance of bounces you receive in response to something somebody else sent (usually spam), has finally made its way into the public eye. USA Today Reports: 'Backscatter spam' gums up many e-mail inboxes .

The Changing Definition of Spam

Over on CIO Magazine's website, capable jounalist Esther Schindler posted an interesting article on the topic of spam defined, and how that definition has been changing over the years. The spark that led to her writing this came from a discussion on an anti-spam mailing li…