It's time for a friendly reminder: It's not cool to steal content from somebody else's blog to put on your own. If you're quoting 98% of somebody else's blog…
"You gotta fight! For your right! To connnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnntact!" -- Beastie Boys (sort of) Regarding the ongoing saga of E360 versus the Entire Universe, it look…
E360 (who is also fighting Spamhaus in court) just saw their lawsuit against Comcast laughed out of court. The judge in this case really seems to be savvy on the issues involved…
Over on her blog, Laura Atkins of Word to the Wise shares eleven timely tips on dealing with ISPs when you're blocked. A lot of it is common sense, but then again ... I kno…
I just received an email. It was sent an email list that I signed up for, in person, last week, at a wine tasting in my neighborhood here in Chicago. It was very much a desired e…
Wow, how time flies. It's been more than a year since DearAOL.com fell off the face of the internet. Remember what that was? It was an astroturf site (i.e. a fake grass ro…
This is bizarre. If you're a registered, opted-in user of Peachtree, and you unsubscribe from their emails, you could end up receiving this : Our records indicate that [reda…
This press release suggests that the "report spam" button (found in common email interfaces like AOL, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) is broken. Good senders (send mail people wa…
Mickey Chandler says: " EPIC FAIL ." Another blogger (I'm not going to help his Google-fu by linking) states that he "hates to say it," but that Comcast…
Forcing somebody to opt-in, by making them check a box that says, "I agree to X" before you'll let them buy from you (or even register) is a bad idea. It's just…
The keys to email delivery success? "It all comes down to four words: List hygiene and relevance." -- Ken Magill Couldn't have said it better myself! Thanks, Ken…
I get a new one of these every couple of weeks. The from addresses and names vary; usually it has a random Gmail address on the from address. The name associated is something lik…
Please donate to David Ritz's legal defense fund. Why? Read this . (My post also got picked up by CircleID and Slashdot .) Read this , too. How? Go here . (It's mana…
Good advice from my industry colleague Mickey Chandler. A couple of highlights: If people don’t ask for mail, they’ll report it as spam. It really is just that simple. Are you s…
I seem to be getting random invites from people I "kind-of" know via some site called Notchup. No clue what this is, and the invites are all very boilerplate in nature.…
