If there’s one thing I wish somebody would have warned me about a few months ago, it’s this: Get proactive with Sender ID, and do it NOW! Sender ID suddenly just became a big d…
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 goo…
Jamie Schissler, Strategy Director at Avenue A | Razorfish, has this to say on the topic: Having worked in the promotion marketing space, I love sweepstakes. They should be a …
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…
Over on Email Insider, Melinda "Email Diva" Krueger provides some wise advice on list cleaning best practices. Two second summary: Get non-responders off your list.…
So, were you wondering how many average spams it takes to fill up a Gmail account? I find today that the answer is: 280,570. Just over two hundered and eighty thousands spams i…
Double opt-in, confirmed opt-in, email address verification, whatever you call it -- nobody ever universally agrees on whether or not you should do it. I see a lot of people in t…
Here’s an update on the Amicus Brief filed in support of Spamhaus.
As part of my massive spam/ham tracking project , I’ve been signing up for lists. Hundreds of lists. Somewhere north of four hundred and I keep adding more every day. I’m pract…
Anne Mitchell pointed me toward a post on her Internet Patrol blog about how Flixster’s “invite a friend” functionality either asks you for or allows you to give Flixster your A…
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…
From Ken Magill, published on Direct Magazine's website: Twenty-nine individuals and organizations have signed onto an amicus brief filed last week in support of anti-spam …
Oh boy, the things you find on the newsgroups sometimes. Here's a link to a thread on the news.admin.net-abuse.email newsgroup where Spamhaus and E360 decided to battle it…
In short, spamtraps are bad addresses that you don’t want on your list. They’re old email addresses that haven’t been used for real people for a long time, or addresses that are …
Among other things, I run the abuse desk for a large service provider with lots of clients. We get a handful of complaints a day. For example, over the past three days, we’ve rec…
