Let’s take a little stroll down email memory lane. In the pre-CAN-SPAM era, when dial-up was still a thing and some people paid by the minute for internet access (remember that?), spammers found…
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Every once in a while somebody drops into comments espousing a conspiracy theory around how blocklists are “designed to extract money from email senders” or some other crazy thin…
This certainly wasn’t the first instance of spam , but it might be the first instance of a spam related lawsuit. It all began on April 1, 1997, when the owners of the flowers.com…
Roger Ebert, in addition to having been one of the best movie reviewers out there, is known to me, and to many other spam fighters out there, for having coined " The Boulde…
I'm not 100% sure of the exact day that I first posted to this blog, but based on what I can find in my own notes and archives, I probably published my first post on August…
Check out this list of top ten email/security blogs from November 2010. You know which URLs still resolve? Which ones are clearly still here? Only three of the ten.* Me! Al Ivers…
Recognizing the upcoming 40th anniversary of spam (the bad kind), Forbes shares 25 facts you may or may not have known about everybody's least favorite kind of email message…
Lots of people think that Canter and Siegel are the first internet spammers. Not exactly true. Long before their first excursions into bad taste in 1994, came another: Gary Thue…
