Three CAN-SPAM Myths: CAN-SPAM is the US Federal Anti-spam law. If you're sending commercial email in the US, or you're a savvy spam filterer, you probably already know a…
Click here to read a nice little overview from Venkat Balasubramani, published on his Spam Notes blog.
If you are alleged to have sent spam, alleged to have created thousands of webmail accounts in order to shovel spam selling Acai berry-related products, maybe storing details of …
This is an interesting one. John Levine writes : "Bennett Haselton, who runs the Peacefire anti-censorship site, is one of the more successful anti-spam litigants. He says h…
Tagged.com, who previously won their own anti-spam lawsuit , has yet again had to deal with spam allegations leveled against them. The Contra Costa Times reports that "Ta…
This morning I spent a few minutes going through my Gmail spam folder, looking for legitimate mails that might have been accidentally marked as spam by the Gmail system. It's…
Watch out for those ads offering you free gift cards, free iPads, MacBooks, whatever. Invariably the goal of the person behind the ad is to get as much personal information out o…
Hey, if you're running a marketing program, if you manage a marketing list, I have to ask: Are you tracking where and when and how each recipient signs up for your email list…
Blue Sky Factory's DJ Waldow has posted an excellent rebuttal to this awful Harvard Business Review article pining for opt-out email marketing. I think DJ's response is…
Remember how I mentioned SPAM-L the other day? Sometimes you learn useful stuff there. After reading a recent discussion there about "forward to a friend" functionality…
Kris writes, "Hi Al, I am contacting you because I would like to receive some feedback (advice, tips) on how an ISP can help to prevent outbound spam. "I work for an IS…
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Virgin Mobile was found to have been sending email messages to recipients who had previously opted-out of email advertisements from the mo…
TechFlash reports: "Seattle-based Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of sending emails that…
This morning, an anonymous commenter attempted to drop a truth bomb on my post about how Jigsaw was blacklisted by Spamhaus . (They still are , by the way.) In his comment , he…
I'm a pretty heavy user of Twitter. I've got a few followers, I pay attention to what a lot of people say, and I know a number of people that follow what I say. I enjoy t…
