Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Mickey Chandler asks, " Do you want to fund the lawsuit? " Meaning, if you're splitting the hair very thin to make the case that what you're doing *must* be legally compliant, ask yourself: Do you really want to be that edge case that gets pulled into court? I…

Terry Zink blogs about the necessity of a "Report Moron" button . Ha.

Dylan from email service provider eROI talks about how he got an offer to sign up for services from a competing email service provider. And, as Dylan puts it, "they are using my emailROI email address that I stopped using over 4 years ago. And this sender is something th…

Check out this very old presentation about the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS) , from October, 2000. I had already left MAPS at that point, but apparently, my personal brand was strong enough to leave my name in the presentation, as it indicates that RSS was created by me. …

Insight on the topic (and thoughts on industry leadership issues) from Ken Magill and Laura Atkins .

Ben at MailChimp takes us through it : Postini causes wanted mail to not be delivered. MailChimp tries to work with Postini. Postini rather lamely says, "Yeah, they're known spammers." MailChimp pushes hard enough and long enough that Postini actually looks into i…

Remember James Gordon? The guy who sued Virtumundo, and lost? If you don't remember, here's some history: Ken Magill laughs at Gordon here . Mickey Chandler talks about it here . Ed Falk talks about how Gordon lost so badly that Virtumundo was awarded legal fees .

Might I recommend you check out J.D. Falk's " Box of Meat " blog? It has rapidly become one of my favorites, the blog I check first when it's time to start reading my way around the blog-o-sphere. Quick links (and insightful one liners) take you straight to th…

Laura Atkins of Word to the Wise covers the topic capably , covering both sides of the ISP/blacklist filtering coin. Here’s my take on it, based on my experiences working both as a blacklist operator, and consultant working with senders on how to improve delivery by doing the r…

It's time for a friendly reminder: It's not cool to steal content from somebody else's blog to put on your own. If you're quoting 98% of somebody else's blog post on your own blog, you're pirating their content. A quick excerpt and a link? Those are aw…

"You gotta fight! For your right! To connnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnntact!" -- Beastie Boys (sort of) Regarding the ongoing saga of E360 versus the Entire Universe, it looks like E360 has put out a press release explaining that they plan to soldier on. The subheading …

E360 (who is also fighting Spamhaus in court) just saw their lawsuit against Comcast laughed out of court. The judge in this case really seems to be savvy on the issues involved. Third sentence in: "Some, perhaps even a majority of people in this country, would call [E…

Over on her blog, Laura Atkins of Word to the Wise shares eleven timely tips on dealing with ISPs when you're blocked. A lot of it is common sense, but then again ... I know that a lot of people need common sense training.

I just received an email. It was sent an email list that I signed up for, in person, last week, at a wine tasting in my neighborhood here in Chicago. It was very much a desired email. I can't wait to go back to that wine store (once I'm over this cold) and stock up. I d…

Wow, how time flies. It's been more than a year since DearAOL.com fell off the face of the internet. Remember what that was? It was an astroturf site (i.e. a fake grass roots community movement) trying to strike fear in the hearts of us mere mortals about how the end of …

This is bizarre. If you're a registered, opted-in user of Peachtree, and you unsubscribe from their emails, you could end up receiving this : Our records indicate that [redacted] may have been inadvertantly [sic] opted out of e-mail communications. If you did request to …

This press release suggests that the "report spam" button (found in common email interfaces like AOL, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) is broken. Good senders (send mail people want, don't send unwanted mail, set clear expectations in regard to all aspects of email sending) …

Mickey Chandler says: " EPIC FAIL ." Another blogger (I'm not going to help his Google-fu by linking) states that he "hates to say it," but that Comcast's motion "looks like a winner." Hates to say it? You've got somebody suing over w…

Forcing somebody to opt-in, by making them check a box that says, "I agree to X" before you'll let them buy from you (or even register) is a bad idea. It's just plain lame. I've run into this a lot over the years -- and I am well aware of what happens. Whe…