dns
DUDE: YR DOIN' IT WRONG!
Steven Champeon says , "If your PTR contains or ends with IN-ADDR.ARPA, you're Doing It Wrong. Go read a book. That is all."
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bronto
Domain Reputation and Recipient Engagement
Today's guest post comes from Chris Wheeler , the Director of Deliverability at email service provider Bronto Software . No stranger to ...
blago
Quick Hit: Blagojevich Spam
Patti Blagojevich, the wife of the embattled ex-governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, seems to have done something she shouldn't have w...
international
Online Privacy in the UK
Planning to handle consumer data in the UK? Then it's time to learn about the Data Protection Act 1998. Thankfully, Wikipedia has a very...
aol
Ask Al: Trouble Sending From My Own Domain?
Adalbert writes: "Hi Al, I need to send emails from Outlook Express. I have a dynamic IP address. I have my own custom domain name. Wh...
deliverability
Good Advice for Senders
Hey email senders, looking for some good advice? Here's a few things you should do or not do, if you want to walk on the right side of t...
chris wheeler
New FBL from Tucows/OpenSRS
There's a new feedback loop in town, according to Chris Wheeler over on Deliverability.com . It's being offered by Tucows, who is, a...
b2bspam
Jigsaw Blacklisted by Spamhaus
Last week Ken Magill interviewed Jigsaw CEO Jim Fowler, quizzing him on his company's stance on selling lists of email addresses . Jim m...
legal
New Maine Law Came...and Went
Chip House reported on the new Maine law over on his blog : "The law doesn’t specifically identify email marketing, [but] it does cover...
gmail
How Google Looks at Spam Complaints
From WebProNews : "Google's Matt Cutts answered a user question about how the company handles spam complaints in the most recent vi...
assumptions
You Can't Buy an Existing Business Relationship
I ran across this on Box of Meat the other day. PogoWasRight.org : Pitney Bowes pays $2.9M to settle ‘Blast Fax’ lawsuit: "When you bu...
box of meat
Happy Birthday, Internet!
J.D. Falk writes about the history of the internet and the relationship between the 'net and advertising. "Oh, Internet. You had su...
advertising
Internet Miracle Cures For Everything!
Quick Hit: Today, Consumerist talks about Slate's Big Money blog, where Chadwick Matlin asks and answers the question, "Who’s to b...
europe
Don't Lie About Safe Harbor
The FTC recently announced what appears to be the first spotlight shined on somebody pretending to be Safe Harbor certified when they actual...
coi
White House Spam, Signup Forgery, and GovDelivery
As guest blogger Jaren Angerbauer mentioned on Friday , after this whole White House spam email debacle, they promised to "implement me...
coi
Guest Post: Email and the White House
Today's guest post comes to us courtsey of Jaren Angerbauer, the founder and CEO of DeliveryVision , an email delivery consulting firm. ...
aol
Blocking specific domains?
Over on the Word to the Wise blog, Laura Atkins answers the question , is it wise for senders to block mail to various anti-spam companies? ...
aol
AOL to Stop Sending Report Cards
As recently noted on the AOL postmaster blog : "We are no longer sending report cards. If you have a complaint feedback loop, make sure...
fastmail
More on Email Forwarding (and Fastmail.fm)
Following up to my recent post about email forwarding, Rob Mueller wrote in, talking up his particular email provider. It's called Fastm...
gmail
And the Most Popular Email Service Is...
Lifehacker reports that in their non-scientific reader poll, most of their users use Gmail as their email platform of choice. Is that surpr...
language
Permission Marketing: A Loaded Term?
I was talking to a group of friends the other day, and the topic of discussion turned to the term "Permission Marketing." How usel...
ken magill
Wholesale e-mail data? Uh, no.
In Dissecting a Pitch that Smells , Ken Magill tears apart an email list offer that smells too good to be true. Ken runs down the myriad of ...
dead dnsbls
Do you use SpamAssassin?
If you're a SpamAssassin user, I recommend you swing over to my DNSBL Resource site and read about the dead bl.open-whois.org blacklist...
aol
Yahoo handles email for Verizon?
No, not exactly. But, according to Mickey Chandler, it looks as though Verizon customers can have their account configured so that mail sent...