b2bspam
Ken Magill, Laura Atkins on Zoominfo
Zoominfo -- a company that has created some sort of business contact database where you (you probably being "spammer") can buy lis...
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john levine
Spam from Postini Servers
John Levine reports on yet another example of spam received from the servers of spam filtering service provider Postini.
gmail
Gmail Tempfailing
Word on the street is, if you're running an MTA that utilizes pipelining aggressively, you're probably having trouble sending email ...
article
Backscatter Goes Mainstream
Quick Link: Looks like Backscatter , the annoyance of bounces you receive in response to something somebody else sent (usually spam), has f...
dma
Tell me about this new opt-out list!
Over here, email marketer Dylan Boyd talks about the the DMA's "launch" of an email opt-out site. What, you mean, eMPS? That ...
criminals
Authorities Shut Down Spam Ring
From the NY Times: The Federal Trade Commission won a preliminary legal victory against what it called one of the largest spam gangs on the...
best practices
Message Timing FAIL
____ sent me an email today. ____ "would like feedback on my recent order." My recent order. The one I placed....in February. ...
chicago
Spam from Randolph Wine Cellars
A few weeks ago, I got spam from some wine store I had never heard of: Randolph Wine Cellars. Located in Chicago, it looks like a neat place...
bcp
Blocking list BCP and Dead DNSBLs
Over on DNSBL Resource, I posted a quick rant and link to the DNSBL best practice draft document . This BCP ought to be required reading for...
list purchasing
Spammers: SambaMail and The Data Supplier
Are you looking to buy a list? There’s no faster path to being identified as a spammer. If you’re looking to damage your ability to send mai...
apews
Ask Al: Help! Am I blocklisted?
Celso writes, "Can you please help me verify that my IP addresses are not on any blocklist?" No, I cannot, Celso. And here's...
can-spam
Virginia Spam Law Overturned: Doesn’t Matter
Hey, there’s been a lot of news floating around out there about how we’re all doomed to suffer from more spam because the conviction of Jere...
funny
Friday Funny: Give Her Big Meat
My favorite email/spam-related blog, Box of Meat , points us toward SpamBLR , a site that takes spam subject lines and uses them for inspira...
criminals
Ken Magill Defends Blacklists
Read all about it: Translation: Though Davidson's end was shocking, that a spammer would resort to violence was not. There are a lot of...
coi
On Political Speech, DOI, and Mr. Poopyhead
Ken Magill (or shall I say, Mr. Poopyhead) makes a funny, yet very insightful point, in his recent article about an email he recently recei...
godaddy
Godaddy misusing the PBL?
According to Justin Mason, domain registrar (and email/web hoster) Godaddy is misusing the Spamhaus PBL: Using it as a URL filter. This is w...
email append
Ow, my Irony hurts!
Hey, what? Did I really just read that? An email appender sending out a press release about how to combat spam? Wait...the company name ...
deliverability
What is a Sender?
Somebody just asked me what I mean when I say "sender." I often refer to senders in contexts like this: A good sender should alway...
best practices
More on Pizza Hut
Dylan at email service provider eROI points out that Pizza Hut's email sign up process is substandard : You have to opt-in to receive e...
can-spam
Don't Spam to Apologize for Spam
The Consumerist headline says it all: Pizza Hut Sends Unsolicited Email To Apologize For Sending Unsolicited Email Or does it? Let's t...
habeas
ReturnPath Buys Habeas
ReturnPath has purchased Habeas, according to all of the industry sources in the world, all of whom have sent me separate emails giving me a...
politics
Political Sending Reputation
Ever wondered what the sending reputation was for your favorite presidential candidate? Here's the IP addresses and Sender Score rankin...
spam
Beware the Fake News Spam
Terry Zink reports on the most recent ball of spam that he (and most of us) have been receiving: Fake news alerts that claim to be from CNN ...
double opt-in
Yahoo Insights and Subcriber Engagement
Mark Brownlow talks about Yahoo's take on subscriber engagement here . After you read that, check out Mark's more generalized theory...