I was quoted in the August, 28th 2001 SpamCon Foundation newsletter, where I shared my experiences relating to spam complaints and ROI on purchased mailing lists. More >>
Michael Rathbun runs honet.com, and started noticing lots of attempts to deliver mail to an invalid email address there. Follow the travels of Nadine, as various companies share and spread this address around, with no apparent care for permission or verification. More >&g…
Check out this article on SFGate.com. It's an editorial by David Lazarus that talks about a local arts group being listed on Joe Jared's block list, for running an open relay. Here's a couple of snippets from it: A little digging revealed that OsiruSoft, based in …
On July 31, 2001, Nick Renton , of Melbourne, Australia, wrote an interesting commentary on why a new anti-spam blacklist, called ORBL, was a bad thing. Oddly enough, the only reason I knew about this, is because Mr. Renton actually chose to advertise this fact to me -- by e…
As you probably know, I used to be associated with the Mail Abuse Prevention System, the well-known anti-spam blacklist group. Though I continue to fully support a network owner's right to block email from whomever they please, I no longer have faith in MAPS' goals or…
I used to work for the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS). They maintain, among other things, the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL). The MAPS RBL is a list of Internet sites. On this list are sites that have sent spam, assisted people who sent spam, benefited from spam, or due t…
