Hey! You can find the more modern, updated version of this question and answer here . Whoops @ the newsletter automation choosing this old article for inclusion in this a 2022 ne…
Michael Rathbun recently commented on my old 2007 post linking to his "Story of Nadine" website . He notes, "A while back I located an obituary notice for "Na…
Open relays are back! Spamhaus shares the sad story that history is repeating itself and spammers are once again finding and exploiting open relaying mail servers to shovel spam…
Over at Word to the Wise, Laura Atkins reports on Scott Richter's domain registrar Dynamic Dolphin getting its accreditation yanked. I'm not sure why this took so long. …
Andrej writes, "Hello, I would like to ask you to remove my IP address from APEWS.org blocklist. Thank you very much." Andrej, thanks for reaching out. I wish I could o…
(Hat tip to: Laura Atkins of WttW ) This is almost timely -- I was teed up to speak at a recent email/anti-abuse conference on the topic of Payday Loan marketers and what a chal…
Over at Spamtacular, Mickey Chandler explains how one single submission on one form resulted in his test account receiving hundreds of emails. This is a big part of why payday l…
Every once in a while, maybe every few days, I pull up my bookmark for the SBL Latest Additions and Removals over on spamhaus.org . It's usually pretty interesting to watch. …
Ars Technica reports: "Four plaintiffs filed a class-action suit in US district court in San Jose on Friday claiming that LinkedIn used its member's identities without c…
Here's my take on it, and here's John Levine's take . I really like John's breakdown of the clickwrap license issue and detail on how the parties included email a…
Do you know what a mail merge variable is? I used the term the other day in an email to a coworker and they were confused. An email list attribute? A personalization string? What…
Do you have any other links to articles about Gmail's new tabbed inbox user interface? Leave details in a comment and I'll update the post. Let's start with two from …
From his August 20th article talking to Kirk Gray of APUS: "The more I read about Gmail tabs, the more I think a bunch of folks are getting worked up over a whole lot of no…
Over on CircleID, John Levine shares his thoughts on the default judgment in Zoobuh v. Better Broadcasting . Though it's a default judgment, the judge actually seems to have…
Every couple of days, somebody new pops up on the DMARC-Discuss mailing list to ask some question or share an observation. It's great to see people interested and joining th…
