Right-leaning political groups in the US have long accused Gmail of unfair left-leaning bias when it comes to spam filtering. As an example, the Republican National Committee alleged so in a law…
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The US Federal Trade Commission very recently announced that they’re imposing a $2.95 million fine against security camera firm Verkada for, among other things, violating CAN-SP…
As mentioned earlier , the FTC recently announced a proposed settlement with Experian, taking action against them for allegedly sending commercial emails while claiming those ema…
This is an important one to share, because it highlights what can happen if you try too hard to characterize your emails as transactional, when they're probably not. Leave ou…
I saw somebody ask recently how best to label their email marketing messages as an advertisement. Their intent was to comply with CAN-SPAM, the US federal anti-spam law. Though I…
First published in 2005 , the FCC's Wireless Domains list was intended to be a list of domains associated with mobile devices (cell phones, pagers, etc.) and that senders of…
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…
In light of the various ESP-related data breaches we've seen, exposing various email lists to spammers and the world over the past couple of years, it seems this is somethin…
Laura Atkins hipped me to this report from SPAMFighter about Tagged.com winning a lawsuit against a spammer, somebody who was "victimizing members of Tagged.com by dispatc…
A reader contacted me the other day, showing me an email message he had received from his bank. They had sent him a transactional message, and he took umbrage at the fact that t…
Back when my wife Kate and I had our wedding reception in June of 2009, we hired a local photographer, the sister of one of our friends. She worked out very well, and we were ver…
My friend Neil Schwartzman asked me a question during the FTC Spam Summit a couple of weeks ago. He asked me, “Where's the consumer?” Neil, executive director of CAUCE (th…
This has been making the rounds in the blogosphere these past few days: Vonage is taking months/years old addresses, submitted ONLY for a forward-to-a-friend promotion, and sendi…
The US Federal Anti-Spam law (CAN-SPAM) has been in effect for just over three years now, yet I still get questions about it constantly. Here’s a quick roundup of links to resour…
