aol
AOL blocked? Don't try this at home.
Gee, ya think THIS will scale? Over on the AOL Postmaster blog , a commenter tells a tale of his alternate method of finding a human at AOL...
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ask al
Spamcop Blacklisting: Should you care?
I was asked today if Spamcop should be "trusted." After all, even the Spamcop Wikipedia page says that their blocking list is ...
rant
Is this permission?
I received an email the other day that went something like this: "Hello, A media site you recently visited would like you to participat...
rant
Why are you in my inbox?
Who are you? Wait -- now I remember you. Long ago, I was visiting some far away city, biding my time in some mall or airport or something, s...
ask al
What changed?
How come my list of third-party opt-ins from two years ago is now having problems, the question goes. What changed? I'm still doing eve...
botnets
Score one for the Good Guys
The Composite Blocking List, a very popular anti-spam blacklist, reports that the Rustock botnet seems to have been disabled . Spam levels h...
can-spam
On the Legality of Spam Filtering
But my email fully complies with CAN-SPAM, the argument goes. How can ISPs be allowed to block my mail? I comply! Here's how. Read sec...
domains
Spamhaus and URL Shortening Services
On March 5th, Spamhaus announced a change to its DBL (Domain Block List). They're now breaking out a separate category of listings spec...
comcast
Comcast’s Impressive System for Notifying Infected Users
Return Path's J.D. Falk reports on Comcast's efforts to let customers know when their home computers are infected: Pushing infectees...
china
China cleans up spam problem
Techworld reports: "Once the largest source of the world's spam, China has been gradually fading off the list of the world's to...
maps
Is there a war on small mail servers?
A few days ago, a Slashdot user asked , “ Is there a war on small mail servers? ” The admin went on to state that he or she works for a comp...
box of meat
How to Start a Spam trap
Box of Meat tipped us to this wonderful post detailing the best practices to keep in mind when creating one or more spam trap addresses or ...
cloudmark
Cloudmark developing SMS spam filter
Hey, this is cool: According to Engadget , Cloudmark seems to be working on the next frontier of spam filtering: SMS spam. Give it a few yea...
permisison
Making Permission Assumptions
Do you know Romer? He's just this guy, you know. As he points out over on his WordPress blog , he's been in the anti-spam field for ...
resmail
Who/what is RESMAIL?
There's somebody sneaky in my Gmail spam folder. Some company I've never heard of, apparently called RESMAIL, keeps showing up there...
goodmail
Goodmail to Shut Down
Laura Atkins reports on this over on the Word to the Wise blog , and Dennis Dayman covers this for Deliverability.com: Goodmail services ar...
permission
Thought of the Day: Permission
What permission is: Permission means your potential subscriber initiated the request to sign up for your emails. What permission is not: ...
best practices
An Informal Definition of Spam
I was talking to a guy the other day about the whole LinkedIn harvesting incident (or non-incident, depending upon your point of view), and...
bad ideas
Dennis Dayman: Watch out for DeepWWW
Over on Deliverability.com, Dennis Dayman shares a tale of spam and information about an uncooperative seller of email list data . Anybody e...
angie schottmuller
How to Generate Leads with LinkedIn
I guess I’ve still got LinkedIn on the brain . In response to my complaint about being spammed by somebody due to harvesting of my email add...
holomaxx
AMENDMENT IS FUTILE
I'm LOL'ing over here after reading Laura Atkins' Holomaxx v. Yahoo update .
bad ideas
LinkedIn: A list-building opportunity?
Wow! 500+ new subscribers! It seems an exciting and easy opportunity, doesn’t it? If you’re like me, you’ve got a big list of contacts that ...
email access
Microsoft, Holomaxx, ISPs Reading Your Email
Way back on December 19th, John Levine posted Microsoft's response to the Holomaxx lawsuit . I haven't had a chance to read it in de...
2010
Top 5 Spam Resource Posts in 2010
As we transition to the new year, I thought it would be fun to share with you the top five most popular posts on Spam Resource, based on num...