Archive for June, 2008
AOL Converting All FBLs to ARF on 9/2/08
Christine, of the AOL Postmaster Team tells us that: Beginning on September 2, 2008, AOL will remove the option to create non-ARF FBLs. We will also convert all existing non-ARF loops to ARF loops. They have offered the option to have an ARF FBL for a while now. If you’ve been using that option then [...]
How not to handle unsubscribes
Laura of Word to the Wise has an excellent post up on How not to handle unsubscribes regarding her experience trying (and failing) to be unsubscribed from Paypal’s lists. The only thing she left out was this quote: For example, DMA argued that ‘‘tracking by account information also makes it easier to honor opt-out requests [...]
ICANN requested to take action by Knujon
The Industry Standard reports that Knujon has asked ICANN to “take action” against Xinnet Bei Gong Da Software. The requested action is that Xinnet “be issued a breach notice and . . . be prevented from registering new domains”. copyright
Scouting
I’m taking a bit of a vacation this week. I’m the hiking instructor at a cub scout day camp. That means 5 1-mile hikes per day.
How to Lose Your Job in 1 Simple Email
Just do what this guy did and circulate a copy of someone’s check (for her “right arm and no dollars” no less) without removing the banking information.
Marketers missing out at Word to the Wise
Laura has a post up concluding that “Senders MUST learn to step up and uphold their end of the sender – recipient relationship. . . Recipients want to know sender sees them as more than an email address, but actually as a valuable customer.” about
What’s up with Jeremy Jaynes?
Several places I’ve frequented lately have been up-at-arms over the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision to grant a limited re-hearing on a question of standing in the Jeremy Jaynes case. So, here’s the lowdown: Jaynes (a/k/a Gavin Stubberfield) was convicted in 2005 of certain criminal offenses defined in Virginia’s anti-spam statute. He claimed a few problems [...]
I had a CAN-SPAM compliant dinner last night
If you’re working in the email space, everything is “CAN-SPAM complaint”. But does it make any sense to say that “I had a CAN-SPAM compliant dinner last night”? No? I didn’t think so either. But, what makes an email database “CAN-SPAM complaint”? You see, I came across a press release wherein the company purports to [...]
Courts mustn’t stifle anti-spam efforts – San Jose Mercury News
An editorial today in the San Jose Mercury News by Seth Cooper argues that “Courts mustn’t stifle anti-spam efforts”.
When Privacy and Law Collide
On a mailing list I’m on there is currently a long, drawn out discussion regarding suppression lists. One of the interesting points that has come up has come from a privacy angle. What if someone wants you to completely remove their data from your possession? By that, I mean that they request that you remove [...]
Shameless Self-Promotion
