Why an opt-out opt-in doesn’t really work
17 August 2011
I recently heard from some friends about Penton Media sending an email asking people to subscribe to third-party email. They didn’t like being required to opt-out to avoid getting an email that wasn’t requested in the first place, even if there had been a warning given that the email was coming. Spamhaus agreed with those
Oral arguments in e360 v. Spamhaus
9 June 2011
There were oral arguments yesterday in David Linhardt’s longshot of a lawsuit against Spamhaus. You can listen to the MP3 here. My impressions are that e360 is likely toast. In fact, I think that there is some chance, after hearing Judge Pozner refer to the damages case put on by e360 and its attorneys as “grotesque,”
The Eleventh Commandment
3 February 2010
When you do business with a government agency, at just about any level, you surrender a certain amount of privacy. Whatever you give to the agency is likely going to be subject to so-called “sunshine” laws that go by names like “Freedom of Information” or “Freedom of Access.” Recently, some sportsmen have discovered this the hard
Email is about relationships
8 March 2009
Did you know that it’s entirely possible to learn the wrong lessons? Well, it is. I use Zemanta to suggest possible links for blog posts. While writing yesterday’s blog post, a suggested link emerged dealing with CAN-SPAM and the definition of “spam.” That post by Roger Bauer shows how some people just don’t get it