brian krebs
What is bulletproof hosting?
A friend asked me the other day, what exactly is bulletproof hosting? Laura Atkins has complained before, on this very blog , that Google is...
All posts
netprospex
Netprospex: "Verified" really?
Peter Seebach reports on spam he received from Netprospex , and how their lists might not be as "verified" as claimed. (Also note ...
mike horwath
More Spam from Newegg?
My old friend Mike Horwath previously shared with us his experience with Newegg sending him spam. Now he's letting us know that one of ...
bad ideas
What You Suggest Will Kill Email for Everyone
I had another thought today about Gretchen Scheiman's recent MediaPost article . (You can read my thoughts from yesterday here .) In Mi...
bad ideas
The Truth about Permission
Gretchen Scheiman of OgilvyOne wrote a piece for MediaPost the other day, entitled, " Does Permission Need To Be Explicit? " It...
bad ideas
Please Help us Kill Zombies!
I never noticed this until now, but my friend Jess Henig wrote an article for FactCheck.org all the way back in 2008, talking about how forw...
holomaxx
Holomaxx Link Roundup
In addition to my own post mentioning the lawsuit , a number of other wise folks have commented on the Holomax lawsuit(s) against Microsoft ...
laura atkins
Size isn’t the only metric
Laura Atkins beat me to it, writing about this new MarketingSherpa case study wherein a company decimated their list and actually grew reven...
holomaxx
Holomaxx suing Microsoft, Others
From TechEye.net: [Email sender Holomaxx is alleging that] “Microsoft knowingly relies on faulty automated filters and equally faulty third ...
can-spam
Top 4 CAN-SPAM Myths
Here are quick links to all four posts in my past three part series (uh, what?) on CAN-SPAM Myths. CAN-SPAM Myth #1: Applies Only to Spam CA...
bad ideas
Rendering & CAN-SPAM Compliance
Chad White, Research Director for Smith-Harmon, published a great post yesterday on why image rendering is important for CAN-SPAM compliance...
dnswl.org
Changes to DNSWL.org
I just posted information on changes to DNSWL.org over on DNSBL Resource . Looks like they're moving to a for-pay model, for at least la...
ahbl
Godaddy blocklisted by AHBL
The outbound mail servers used by Godaddy hosting customers appear to be blocklisted by the Abusive Hosts Blocking List (AHBL). Over in thi...
funny
Selling Customer Data: Good idea?
What does Scott Adams think? Selling customer data like email addresses to third parties is like selling expired, rotting milk to a foreig...
consumerist
Payday Loan Marketer Settles with FTC
If you ask me, payday loans are a permission challenged industry, when it comes to email marketing. Companies are buying leads, selling lead...
ask al
Ask Al: Senderbase.org?
A reader wrote in with the following question/complaint about Senderbase.org . I'm going to post this one anonymously. The reader wrote,...
funny
Magill Has Questions
Ken Magill has questions about my prior post. And yes, you do have to move to Holland.
asis internet services
The Rise and Fall of a Spam Plaintiff
Venkat Balasubramani recaps the history of serial spam plaintiff Asis Internet over on his great Spam Notes blog. Nicely ties everything t...
box of meat
Magill-Meat Love Fest
Ken Magill, over on The Magill Report, had this to say about link blog Box of Meat : "I get a lot of story ideas from Box of Meat. It ...
data theft
HR2221: Data Accountability and Trust Act
In light of the various ESP-related data breaches we've seen, exposing various email lists to spammers and the world over the past coup...
faq
What is Hashbusting?
If you've ever received a spam email that had a bunch of random text at the bottom, text that didn't make sense or didn't relate...
silly
WHOIS Wasn't Hacked
SOPHOS.COM.FELL.FOR.A.VERY.OLD.HACK.TODAY. I guess if you haven't been around for a while, you've never noticed that there are ins...
rich kulawiec
Rich Kulawiec Booted from SPAM-L
The current owner of SPAM-L , a long-time anti-spam discussion mailing list, announced on September 3rd that long-time subscriber Rich Kulaw...
arf
ARF: Now a Proposed Standard
ARF (Abuse Reporting Format), a simple specification that enables senders of email abuse reports (like, spam complaints and feedback loop re...