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Tom Mairs: Combating RCS spam

Tom Mairs is co-founder of Kumo Corp . If you're not familiar, they're " Building the first Open-Source MTA made especially for large-volume senders. " Tom's also got a personal blog full of random musings and I thought it would be useful to link to his very simple and helpful guide explaining how to report unwanted RCS messages as spam. Very timely, given the spam I&#…
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Spamhaus wants your spam!

Now's your chance! Whether or not you've got your own spamtrap and data feed, or if you're just being doggedly annoyed non-stop by a particular jerky spammer, you can now pass information directly to Spamhaus, with the hope that it will help inform their spam filter…

Help! I got spammed! What should I do?

Here's what I think you should do if you've received unwanted spam in your inbox. Most importantly, you should click the "report spam" button offered by Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, etc. to train the ISP that the sender's domain and IP address are being…

How to find ISP Contact Information

Need to contact an ISP for a deliverability issue? But you're not sure where to start or don't know where to go looking for contact information? Here's an example of steps you can try to identify contact information. Keep in mind that no method for looking for conta…

ESP Abuse/Spam Contact List

There are useful tools out there that can help you figure out where to send a spam report to. I use the ARIN Regional Internet Registry and abuse.net  nearly every day to look up spam reporting (abuse) contacts for IP addresses and domains. Some folks use SpamCop (which histo…

Reporting Spam to Apple from your iCloud Mail account

Apple's iCloud Mail doesn't have an ISP Feedback Loop (the mechanism that sends spam reports back to the sender or sending email platform), but even so, I think it is good to tell them when you believe a particular email message to be spam. It is very likely that Ap…

Greetings from San Jose

Greetings from the San Jose airport, where I am waiting to fly home after attending the INBOX Event. I was there to participate in a panel on deliverability and authentication, along with my good friend Morgan Witt from BlueHornet. The highlight for me was Patrick Peterson fr…

Tracking lots of spam for fun and profit

It dawned on me today that I haven't been logging the recipient addresses identified in the spam messages I'm cataloging and reporting data on . I think it'd be a good idea to expand my data set sideways and start adding that info, as spot checking the data has been…

Gmail, End User Privacy, and Harassment

Gmail gets a lot of things right, but gets one really important thing very wrong. I'm going to tear into Google momentarily, but before I do that, let's start with the good things. Praise before criticism, and all that. And rightly so -- I don't want to skim over…

Ask Al: How do I track abusive spam?

Cindy from NY writes: "Hello -- I am receiving abusive e-mails and am trying to track them through Sam Spade et.al. I think I know who is sending them and am trying to match IP addresses with old legitimate e-mails from the sender. Is this possible? I've spent many hou…