Spamhaus writes: "The Herbalking aftermath continues with a federal judge ordering ringleader Lance Atkinson to pay the FTC a hefty US$15 million. After already admitting hi…
Alan Ralsky, a pump-and-dump spammer noted by Spamhaus as one of the world's top ten worst spammers for " quite some time ," is off to camp fed for 51 months. Anti-…
Lynn asks, "Al, I'm hoping you can help me out. I belong to a group that has a mailing list of 350 people. Every month the group sends them a PDF, and there are always p…
My friend Mickey Chandler mentioned to me that TAG44 emailed him yet again . They're apparently still putting a stupid "this is not spam" disclaimer in their emai…
Yesterday, Loren McDonald blogged about "FISUE Syndrome." What is it? It's where a recipient "Forgot I Signed Up for Email." He writes: "Was That E…
Jerry writes, "Al, a recent email from 'Get to the Point' quoted you as below. My question is this: What, exactly , are spam [content] filters picking up from a gen…
Mangesh writes, "Can you verify and help me out to remove my exchange server at IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX from blacklist.spambag.org? You can email me on same email address…
As Laura Atkins points out , everybody who uses the phrase "legitimate email marketer" seems to have some huge horrible problem caused by their own bad practices. And s…
Karmasphere, founded in 2005 by Meng Weng Wong as a reputation service provider, provided some neat tools, allowing any Joe internet user to publish their own blacklist or white…
Vincent Hannah of Spamhaus reports : "Two New Zealanders well known to Spamhaus have been fined for their roles in the biggest pharmaceutical spamming operation in the histo…
Perry writes, "I keep coming back to re-read your comments about AOL being the good guys. I must admit, that when our ISP is on their blacklist, bad things happen." W…
In early 2007, Ed Falk , John Levine, and other trusted anti-spam and network security folks started to note that email addresses given only to TD Ameritrade were beginning to re…
Jeremy asks, "Al, Help! I submitted a support ticket to [an ISP] for my IPs which were getting tempfailed, and 24 hours later they were completely blocked! Why?"
