eWeek reports that Dutch internet service provider A2B has filed two police complaints against anti-spam blacklist Spamhaus for refusing to terminate a provider Spamhaus alleges …
A couple of years ago I posted here how my wife and I started getting oddly addressed email from a supposedly legitimate company, addressed to an address we never use, addressed …
As widely reported, MAAWG, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group put out a statement a couple of weeks ago basically condemning email append. Find a link to the statement here ,…
Nothing really wrong with the guidance in this blog post over at the Bronto Blog , but I can't be the only person who read the head line and thought, hey, I'm a person, n…
Well, maybe it wasn't quite a sure thing, because you never know how a judge is going to rule. You just don't. Even if the law seems clear as the blue sky (and this one d…
Over on the Word to the Wise blog, Steve Atkins reports on something very alarming : That Trend Micro's MAPS blocking lists seem to be playing silly buggers with spamtraps. S…
Well, I knew this was going to happen eventually: Google now has global spam filtering for Google Voice . It works in a way very similar to how ISPs track the sending reputation …
The email authentication protocol DomainKeys Identified Mail, aka DKIM, is winding its way through the standards track, and seems to be the future of email authentication. Rece…
SpamTips.org, a website devoted to SpamAssassin Tips ( SpamAssassin being the wildly popular open-source spam filter) recently posted a wonderful DNSBL Safety Report , showing hi…
Gee, ya think THIS will scale? Over on the AOL Postmaster blog , a commenter tells a tale of his alternate method of finding a human at AOL to assist with his spam blocking issu…
I was asked today if Spamcop should be "trusted." After all, even the Spamcop Wikipedia page says that their blocking list is "controversial." Though, is it…
I received an email the other day that went something like this: "Hello, A media site you recently visited would like you to participate in their user-survey. Your input wil…
Who are you? Wait -- now I remember you. Long ago, I was visiting some far away city, biding my time in some mall or airport or something, some place where the only option for wi…
How come my list of third-party opt-ins from two years ago is now having problems, the question goes. What changed? I'm still doing everything right. I'm getting that qu…
The Composite Blocking List, a very popular anti-spam blacklist, reports that the Rustock botnet seems to have been disabled . Spam levels have plummeted as a result. Likely not …
