Did a wizard do it? No, it was engagement. Mickey Chandler : "If you already have a good program, then mailing inactives isn’t likely to hurt you much. On the other hand, …
Over on the Mainsleaze blog, Catherine Jefferson points out that the Obama campaign is sending mail both to an address she purposely signed up to receive their mailings, and als…
Return Path's Sam Masiello explains : "The genesis of DMARC was actually a private partnership between PayPal and Yahoo! and Google. They worked together in 20007 and 20…
Over on the Email Responsibly blog, Experian CheetahMail's Ben Isaacson explains "that Experian CheetahMail believes that opt-out email appending is no longer an accept…
On December 28th, the NY Times sent an email, intended to go to about 300 people, out to over eight million email subscribers. At first, Times employees said it didn't come f…
"Spam is Lame" of the "I Kill Spammers" blog has posted a pretty comprehensive and delightful recap of legal action taken against spammers in 2011 . I'm g…
Jay writes: Al, I am getting the following message on several email related to AT&T: flph260 DNSBL:ATTRBL 521< xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx>_is_blocked.__For_information_see_http://…
I've written about Netprospex before. For example, talking about how I think their "opt-out" guidance on email marketing is misguided (and how so many others feel …
I'm very sad to pass along the news that J.D. Falk has passed away after a year-long battle with cancer . I feel like I've known J.D. forever, and I most definitely had…
Today I stumbled across SBL listing SBL120550 , which says the following: "Several IPs in this /28 are sending spam to spamtraps advertising the services of ADT Home Secu…
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…
