john levine
Court rules Jay Fink free to help you fight spam
As reported previously , the State of California tried to tell Jay Fink that he needed a Private Investigator's license to be able to le...
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john levine
Does a spam investigator need a license?
Joel "Jay" Fink’s business is at risk – that business being a wonderfully niche endeavor involving a hunt through your spam archiv...
internet
Why can't we just delete .ru?
Over on his blog, John Levine explains why we couldn't just delete all .ru domains (or .su domains or Russian IP addresses) from the in...
abuse.net
Your periodic reminder: Please register with abuse.net
If you're an email marketer, a compliance or deliverability specialist at an ESP, if you work for an email platform, or if you're...
gmail
ISPs do filter political mail
Need proof? It's all right here, in this Markup analysis of how Gmail is handling email messages from various 2020 US presidential candi...
john levine
Spam in a post-GDPR world?
Spam levels are down a bit, according to various reports . Is GDPR to thank? Truth be told, Spamhaus says, that GDPR actions taken by legiti...
canada
Revisiting Spam, the Documentary
Remember this blast from the past? Back in 2007, email expert John Levine sat down with Canada's CBC News to be interviewed for what be...
abuse.net
Masking WHOIS Information: No Abuse.net for you
The WHOIS process and protocol isn't just some nerd thing that goes back a hundred years; it's a valuable public directory for savv...
challenge-response
SpamArrest Loses in Court
Here's my take on it, and here's John Levine's take . I really like John's breakdown of the clickwrap license issue and deta...
better broadcasting
CAN-SPAM Ruling: Domain Ownership Masking Deceptive
Over on CircleID, John Levine shares his thoughts on the default judgment in Zoobuh v. Better Broadcasting . Though it's a default judg...
can-spam
Neutraceutical Spammer Sentenced to 2 Years
John Levine shares his tale of the sentencing of Brian McDaid, "Neutraceutical" spammer. Looks like it is indeed possible to get ...
holomaxx
Holomaxx Link Roundup
In addition to my own post mentioning the lawsuit , a number of other wise folks have commented on the Holomax lawsuit(s) against Microsoft ...
first amendment
Does the First Amendment forbid spam filtering?
I asked fellow blogger (and email expert) John Levine the following: "The Supreme Court overturned the Jaynes conviction on First Amend...
asis internet services
Does CAN-SPAM Cover Affiliate Spam?
Over on his blog, John Levine expertly dissects what went wrong in ASIS vs. Azoogle, an anti-spam lawsuit where, yet again, a judge doesn...
james gordon
The Pernicious Effect of Gordon vs. Virtumundo
This is an interesting one. John Levine writes : "Bennett Haselton, who runs the Peacefire anti-censorship site, is one of the more suc...
article
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...
jeremy jaynes
SCOTUS Declines Review of VA Anti-Spam Law Case
" The Supreme Court has passed up a chance to examine how far states can go to restrict unsolicited e-mails in efforts to block spammer...
john levine
Spam from Postini Servers
John Levine reports on yet another example of spam received from the servers of spam filtering service provider Postini.
can-spam
Virginia Spam Law Overturned: Doesn’t Matter
Hey, there’s been a lot of news floating around out there about how we’re all doomed to suffer from more spam because the conviction of Jere...
james gordon
Thanks, James Gordon
Remember James Gordon? The guy who sued Virtumundo, and lost? If you don't remember, here's some history: Ken Magill laughs at Gordo...