Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: Still yes, and here's why. Spamhaus. If you're in the business of sending email, you've probably heard the name. Maybe not as much lately. But that …
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Last week for my Valimail "Ask Al" video series, I interviewed Andrew Barrett as Spamhaus. Following up on a prior video where the topic was blocklists (with Alison Go…
Back in the day, people used to complain that Spamhaus never really interacted with the broader email community. And to some degree they were right -- Spamhaus people sometimes a…
International anti-spam and security experts Spamhaus have been teasing the launch of their new website for a while now. And now that it's finally here , you'll want to …
As part of their continuing efforts to lock down unrestricted public access to their reputation data, Spamhaus has announced that as of February 14, 2024, they'll be blocking…
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…
A number of folks have reached out to me (and posted on various forums) asking about a Spamhaus glitch last Friday night (October 13th), US time. I reached out to Matthew Stith a…
Spamhaus just announced that they've "reinvigorated" the ASN-DROP list , now available in JSON format. The point of this whole thing is for network operators (think…
Blocklist provider and master spam-filterer Spamhaus had a glitch overnight (Friday to Saturday, August 18-19) starting at about 8:20 pm US central time. The glitch resulted in …
My recent Kickbox webinar, co-hosted with Matthew Stith from Spamhaus, was a lot of fun. We talked about the history of Spamhaus, what kind of bad guy stuff Spamhaus is trying to…
Did you know? Spamhaus has a free eBook to help email marketers know how to do the right thing. With an introduction by Annalivia Ford, one-time postmaster for AOL (remember th…
Hey, fellow email nerds! It's webinar time again. What do you know about Spamhaus ? If not everything, I hope you'll join Matthew Stith and myself on March 21st at 9:00 a…
From 17:00 GMT on Feb 16th through 09:50 GMT on February 17th, spam filterer/security service Spamhaus suffered an outage that meant that "data included in the Data Query S…
This is a question I get a lot. Does Gmail use any blocklists? Or, somebody will tell me that they're having Gmail issues, and they've plugged their own IP address into a…
Here’s an easy tip that I wanted to share with everyone. It’s something I knew about myself but didn’t take into consideration (I guess I got tripped up in my own "do as I s…
A friend warned me of a scenario that could have the potential to freak people out, if misunderstood. It looks like this: This person is using Spamhaus to filter inbound mail. Th…
Hey, email nerds! Are you like me, running various random EC2 instances with scripts or applications that do a bunch of spam and email message analysis, checking (among other thi…
Timely! I just blogged recently talking about what you should do if you get blocklisted by Spamhaus , and now Spamhaus just posted this: Poor sending practices trigger a tidal w…
After finding some shockingly bad advice out there on other websites (no, I'm not the type to name and shame), I thought that it might be a good idea to write up my own thoug…
