What happened to Compu-Finder?
5 March 2015
The CTRC said today that it has issued its first penalty against someone for sending emails violating Canada’s anti-spam law. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, CRTC Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer Issues $1.1 Million Penalty to Compu-Finder for Spamming Canadians, Government of Canada (2015), https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2015/03/crtc-chief-compliance-enforcement-officer-issues-1-1-million-penalty-compu-finder-spamming-canadians.html (last visited Jun 2, 2024). The penalty is substantial (C$1.1
The ISP should be the last of your concerns
11 February 2015
Hey marketers! Listen up! I’m about to give you the dirty little secret to deliverability. You know those stupid “one simple trick” scams that tout weight loss or lower insurance rates? Unlike those scams, I have one simple trick to improve your deliverability rates. Are you ready? Read moreThe Spock TrapFORGET ABOUT THE RECEIVERS AND
Nomenclatura
7 November 2014
“Nomenclatura” is a Latin word that refers to the “assigning of names to things.” Merriam-Webster, Nomenclature, Word History, Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary (2024), https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nomenclature#word-history (last visited Jun 2, 2024). It’s something that we often overlook, but it is very important. The names that we assign to things tell us something about them and sometimes also tell us something
Domain Reputation
16 June 2014
[acp author=”The Spamhaus DBL Team” title=”Changes in Spamhaus DBL DNSBL return codes” id=”DBL_1″ media=”blog” url=”http://www.spamhaus.org/news/article/713/” year=”2014″ month=”June” day=”15″ year_access=”2014″ month_access=”June” day_access=”16″]{author}[/acp] is making some change to their Domain Block List. The new changes will seek to emphasize domains associated with malware and bots, and allow administrators to more easily filter out entries related to legitimate
BT Transitioning Away From Yahoo! Mail
8 April 2014
British Telecom (BT) announced last year that they would be transitioning away from Yahoo! Mail’s service for their customers after a decade. Christopher Williams, BT dumps Yahoo! email after hacking claims, The Telegraph (2013), http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/epic/btdota/10089355/BT-dumps-Yahoo-email-after-hacking-claims.html (last visited May 27, 2024). The concern at the time was over account security. Many BT customers reported losing control of
Proper Assumptions
20 February 2014
This week, I’m at the Messaging, Malware, & Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group meeting. After all of the Tuesday sessions were over, I spoke with a colleague from another company about how I handle some aspects of providing client advice, and he suggested that I write that down in a blog post. For instance, when dealing
If ESPs were like ISPs…
12 February 2014
Everyone wants to protect users and trap data. As a result, people like to send redacted complaints to email service providers (ESPs). Generally, I’m pretty happy to work with redacted data. I need to be able to tell which client sent mail. I need to be able to tell when they sent the mail (the
“Forward to a Friend” and Germany
27 November 2013
Many folks have been talking recently about a September BGH decision holding that “emails sent using a ‘send to a friend’ function are considered spam unless the recipient had given prior express consent. Federal Court of Justice, Empfehlungs-E-Mail (I-ZR-208/12) (2013). (A very unofficial Google Translate version of the decision is available here.) This is a
Don’t opt-out of spam?
19 November 2013
Yesterday, Laura Atkins wrote a blog post which suggests that unsubscribing from spam doesn’t result in receiving more spam (Atkins 2013). I know that this is a project that she’s been working on for at least a month, and I don’t have any reason to doubt her results. Additionally, she links to (Magill 2013), (Pogue 2013),
Deliverability Relationship Marketing
13 September 2013
A teaser (King 2013) for a Delivera whitepaper by Ken Magill provided blog fodder for Laura Atkins over at Word to the Wise (Atkins 2013). Ken’s premise, with which Laura agrees, is that ESPs which start talking about the wonderful relationships they have with folks at Spamhaus or at various ISPs should cause you to be