When you're fighting spam, you reach out to a lot of different people. If you received spam and you're savvy enough, you send it to the ISP from whence it originated, and ask them to tak…
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A spammer was kind enough to leave me a voicemail message today. I wanted to share it with you, so you could understand the delightful insight I receive from listening to differi…
I was reading a mailing list today, as I often do. Some random guy, nobody I know, he posted a request for help. He said, more or less: "Hey, blacklist XYZ has listed my do…
Terry Zink blogs about the necessity of a "Report Moron" button . Ha.
I just received an email. It was sent an email list that I signed up for, in person, last week, at a wine tasting in my neighborhood here in Chicago. It was very much a desired e…
Wow, how time flies. It's been more than a year since DearAOL.com fell off the face of the internet. Remember what that was? It was an astroturf site (i.e. a fake grass ro…
This is bizarre. If you're a registered, opted-in user of Peachtree, and you unsubscribe from their emails, you could end up receiving this : Our records indicate that [reda…
Forcing somebody to opt-in, by making them check a box that says, "I agree to X" before you'll let them buy from you (or even register) is a bad idea. It's just…
I get a new one of these every couple of weeks. The from addresses and names vary; usually it has a random Gmail address on the from address. The name associated is something lik…
....WAY wrong. This is just mind blowing. Ever been prosecuted for tracking spam? Running a traceroute? Doing a zone transfer? Asking a public internet server for public inform…
Another political group is complaining about the big meanies at AOL and Hotmail not accepting their mail. This is nothing new , but I'll mention yet again what I mentioned…
On July 31, 2001, Nick Renton , of Melbourne, Australia, wrote an interesting commentary on why a new anti-spam blacklist, called ORBL, was a bad thing. Oddly enough, the only…
