Archive for October, 2008
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Did Spamhaus help create a legend?
Threat Level asks an interesting question: “Did Anti-Spam Group Create a Backstory For DarkMarket’s Undercover Fed?“ search
Watch what you’re doing!
Several readers have written to me with a link to the Red Tape Chronicles report that AT&T has been caught tagging its own Terms of Service Update Noticiations as spam. Last month, AT&T made some controversial changes to its Internet policies. Verbiage indicating that high-bandwidth users might experience some intentional slowdowns irritated some techies; another [...]
John Levine: “CAN-SPAM is basically a handbook for spamming.”
Dr. John Levine was interviewed by Scott Drake of Speaking of Justice about the overturning of the Jeremy Jaynes conviction for spamming under the Virginia anti-spam statute. In the interview, Dr. Levine is asked to give an overview of CAN-SPAM. His answer begins at approximately the 3:55 mark with “CAN-SPAM has the peculiarity that it [...]
Guide to Great Email
Melinda Krueger is taking a break from the Email Insider and leaves us with her “Email Diva’s guide to great email.”
Prior Business Relationships are irrelevant
When people don’t want to get permission to send mail, they usually don’t want to do other things as well. For instance, they don’t want to offer a way to unsubscribe. They want to make it easy to start and hard to stop. Unfortunately, CAN-SPAM decrees it should be easy to stop mail. And so [...]
