Spam Resource: All Things Deliverability

Over on CircleID, John Levine shares his thoughts on the default judgment in Zoobuh v. Better Broadcasting . Though it's a default judgment, the judge actually seems to have spent some time researching the law and didn't just blindly affirm everything the plaintiff pre…

Every couple of days, somebody new pops up on the DMARC-Discuss mailing list to ask some question or share an observation. It's great to see people interested and joining the conversation. Clearly, DMARC interest and adoption are growing. What's really frustrating, tho…

It's Twitter's turn to jump on the two factor bandwagon. I'm sad that it didn't happen sooner , but still happy to see them joining the ranks of Apple , Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Facebook . Please, please, please consider turning on two factor authentication…

I'm a big fan of two factor authentication. I've been using it on my Google accounts forever. Yahoo has it. Microsoft has it. Now, Apple has it, too! I'm very glad to hear this. I'll be setting it up for my account this weekend.

It's been a long time since I've noticed a new anti-spam blacklist (DNSBL) out in the wild. For more information, click on over to the DNSBL Chile article on DNSBL.com .

Brian Krebs reports on the arrest made in response to the recent massive distributed denial-of-service attack against anti-spam group Spamhaus. ( Hat tip: Laura Atkins )

Ken Magill posted today on " Why Fully Confirmed Opt-in Sucks ." It's definitely worth reading, and I hear where Ken's coming from. To "lose a subscriber" through their failure to confirm, that can really hurt when a list is pretty small. I should kn…

It looks like email permission is not the only challenge for some payday loan marketers. Case in point: This weekend I ran across this story on Slashdot explaining how a Wordpress plugin was hacked to include a link to a UK payday loan site .

In Laura Atkins' blog post where she shares her thoughts on COI , she links to this amazing article from the New Yorker, where Matthew J.X. Malady shares a bit of insight about the vast amounts of misdirected mail received at his own vanity Gmail account.

You've read one point of view somewhere else. Now go read this different, very well thought out take on the subject . It provides a very good overview of the considerations surrounding whether or not you would want to implement confirmed opt-in.

I'm very happy to hear that two-step (also call two-factor) authentication is coming to Microsoft, supposedly in the near future. Yahoo! and Google have had it for a while now, and I'm a big fan. Getting spam from a friend's hacked account is a common attack vect…

One of the UK's largest ISPs, Sky.com, has hired Yahoo! Mail to run their email infrastructure. For more information, surf on over to this page with current status and details. Sounds like it's not going so well for subscribers. What does this mean for senders? Smart …

Can't blame this on the date, as it was posted days ago. This publication would like you to know that "the attacks were focused on a company called Spamhaus, which maintains a "domain name system" to connect a typed-in URL to the correct server hosting the a…

Spamhaus sure seems to be in the news a lot lately. Or at least, I'm mentioning them on my blog an awful lot lately. The latest coverage concerns a rather large DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against Spamhaus, which effectively pushed bits of their infrastructu…

I'm married to a feminist. My wife, Kate Harding , knows athing or two about rape culture, bad guys and misogyny. (In fact, she's theauthor of "Asking For It" forthcoming from Da Capo Press in Fall 2013.) She has long shared with me stories about women being t…

Ken Magill tweeted this today: If anyone still wonders why Spamhaus keeps at arm's length, check out the comments on this bit.ly/10e7i3y — Ken Magill (@Kmagill) March 20, 2013 Meaning, if you're wondering why some of the Spamhaus people tend to use pseudonyms, why they …

It seems as though my website over at DNSBL.com has turned into a graveyard for dead DNSBLs. Over the past few years, I've observed more than a dozen blacklists go missing, and I've written  about more than a dozen others who were shut down prior to that or weren't…

A number of months ago, Steve Linford of Spamhaus replied to columnist Ken Magill on the topic of why Spamhaus editors don't typically provide their names. I highly recommend reading it, then coming back to my post to get my thoughts on this. This occasionally comes up at …

Steve Atkins of Word to the Wise has posted a very interesting story , detailing a little bit of spam history from just over ten years ago. According to Steve, a gentleman who used to work for a spammer participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) question and answer session,…

Over on the ExactTarget blog, Carlo Catajan explains the recently discovered (and since closed) Yahoo! Mail account security issue.

If you're looking for something ranty to read today, head over to Slashdot, where Bennett Haselton goes off at length about how his messages got spamblocked by Yahoo and Hotmail due to something related to bad/blacklisted domains in the body of his email messages. I can un…

Just ask former CIA Director Gen. David Petraeus . And truth be told, 99.9% of the time it doesn't even require the FBI's help to figure out where that email message actually came from.

Jerry writes, "I have a question about spam of all things. I'm on the client side now at company X and I am talking with their email group about opt-in permission. I'm learning they're not exactly worried about the opt in status of the customers getting their p…

Canadian privacy lawyer Shaun Brown shares the latest info over on EmailKarma.net.

One-time Yahoo administrator  Derek Balling has announced that the RFC Ignorant blocking list is being shut down . This blocking list had existed since at least  late 2001 . Its listing criteria including things like not having an "abuse" or "postmaster"addr…