As I said to Ken Magill for his recent article regarding Truthout : From what I know of how spam blocking works, and how ISPs make the determination regarding what mail to block,…
I'm now utilizing “ second stage ” filtering, using the primary Spamhaus blacklist, the SBL . For me, it's an experiment. I just wanted to see how well it works and what …
Another political group is complaining about the big meanies at AOL and Hotmail not accepting their mail. This is nothing new , but I'll mention yet again what I mentioned…
You can catch anti-spam professional (and Internet for Dummies author) John Levine on TV tomorrow. He writes: Last year I helped some Canadian film makers do a TV show called …
In "Will the Real Spam Please Stand Up?," Kevin Stirtz disagrees with the statement , "until a user has opted-in to your email list, you are sending spam." …
Look, it happens to everyone. Run a large network some time. Put a Windows box, or two, or a thousand, on it. Eventually somebody will find a way to bypass the Anti-Virus, and th…
From noted anti-spam professional and "Internet for Dummies" author John Levine: By my reading this is as close to a complete victory as Spamhaus could have hoped for…
Hot off the press, courtesy of the excellent legal document site SpamSuite.com . Mickey Chandler breaks it down: The default judgment stays (e360: 1, Spamhaus 0) The money judgm…
I see a very strange thing today (August 30th). APEWS, an "anonymous" anti-spam blacklist (whose listing policies are very broad and of questionable accuracy ) has take…
I hate blowback . Or call it backscatter , or outscatter , if you prefer. Either way, it's no fun. If your mail server sends it, you're contributing to a growing proble…
If this isn't proof that it can happen to anyone, I don't know what is: Apparently MAPS has a compromised computer, found to be sending spam, and that IP address is now b…
Chad White breaks it down for Email Insider. Question: When is it okay to start emailing people info about company Y, after they signed up for emails from company X? Answer: I…
Lots of talk about the "anonymous" APEWS blacklist lately. Over on DNSBL Resource, I summarize everything I've seen on the topic , and include some info regarding i…
Internet email and security guru John Levine sums it up a lot better than I ever could, so I'll simply point you in his general direction . Update: John Levine pulled his p…
