personalization
The Scunthorpe Problem
Have you heard of the Scunthorpe Problem ? It highlights the side effects associated with trying to filter out profanity. Where it affects m...
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anti-spam groups
What is UCENET?
Formerly known as the London Action Plan, UCENET (Unsolicited Communication Enforcement Network) exists to promote international spam enfor...
advice
Ask Al: What of Senderbase?
Emanuel writes: "I need assistance with Senderbase. What ISP report to Senderbase? Is there a way to view Senderbase complaints? We add...
faq
List-unsubscribe on Gmail: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Google has long provided support for the list-unsubscribe header (as defined in RFC 2369 ) in Gmail. It is listed in their bulk sender guide...
ios10
5 Reasons List-Unsubscribe Concerns Are Overblown
Over on the Litmus blog, Chad White shares why marketers shouldn't panic or try to disable the list-unsubscribe header on their email m...
authentication
Microsoft breaks DKIM signature?
It's kind of rare, but not rare enough. Every now and then I hear of a client who is seeing intermittent DKIM failures at Microsoft Outl...
apple
Yuck: iCloud Calendar Spam
Are you one of the many millions of unlucky souls receiving spammy calendar invites? Apple is apparently aware of and working to address th...
funny
Virgin Media is so rustic and artisan you get to hand-sort your own spam
Can't beat that headline. UK ISP Virgin Media is having a few problems with its spam filters, reports the Register. Previously hosting ...
dnsbl
MegaRBL DNSBL FUBAR
Over on the Word to the Wise blog, Laura Atkins explains what happened with that spate of short-term MegaRBL DNSBL listings you may have no...
food
Putting Spam to the culinary test
Time for a distraction. The Staunton (VA) News Leader reports on the Virginia Military Institute's Spam challenge, wherein chefs are tas...
best practices
Holiday Season Tip: Don't Experiment
Hey, November and December are a big, important time period for online retailers. Lots of people always ask me what they should do to minimi...
gmail
Gmail Updated on iOS
Google announced an updated version of the Gmail email client for iOS devices today . The big new enhancements seem to be "undo," ...
elections
Email and the 2016 Presidential Election
Just a few more days until the election, and then everybody can calm down and get back to their normal lives, I hope. Every time I read the ...
barracuda
Barracuda (was) down
Founded in 2003, Barracuda Networks provides anti-spam and security-related hardware and services and was believed to have more than 150,000...
email client
Now you can read your email on Xbox One
Jess Nelson of MediaPost's EmailMarketing Daily shares news of the first-ever email client for the Xbox : MailOnX. Though, designers, I ...
malware
Beware: Student loan forgiveness spam
SC Magazine shares details of a Symantec report identifying student loan forgiveness spam as a path for the unwitting to get infected with m...
law
Obama Administration Says Text-Spam Law Is Constitutional
Wendy Davis of MediaPost reports on a challenge to the TCPA (Telephone Consumer Protection Act), the US law that is the basis of US prohibit...
email forwarding
Yahoo! Mail: No Forwarding for you
It is being reported that Yahoo! Mail has disabled the ability for users to enable email forwarding. If you already have the feature enabled...
authentication
Checking an SPF record with the Kitterman SPF Validator
If you received an email message in your Gmail inbox, Google provides easy-to-read authentication results, showing you if the email message...
bad domains
Best practices for parked domains
A few months ago, I posted about " SPF Lockdown ," a simple way to use an SPF (sender policy framework) DNS record to tell the wor...
alto
AOL announces Alto, new mobile email app
On Thursday, AOL launched iOS and Android versions of "Alto," a "proprietary email intelligence engine built to analyze and r...
fbls
Not receiving Yahoo FBL Confirmations? What to do
ISP Feedback Loops (FBL) are valuable for email senders and email service providers (ESPs). It provides valuable information on who is compl...
aol
DMARC Support in Mailman
Mailman is a very popular open source mailing list management software package. It's been around for a long time -- since the late 1990s...
css
Gmail to Support Responsive Design + More
Litmus recently shared news that is sure to make email designers everywhere light up with glee: "On August 31, 2016, Gmail began suppor...