Archive for January, 2009
Lycos Europe mail shutdown date
Lycos Europe It’s no real surprise that Lycos Europe is shutting down. What wasn’t known was the date of the shutdown. That’s now known: February 15. A quick and dirty check of hosts using Lycos Europe’s MXes reveals that the shutdown will affect the following domains (Update: now greatly expanded thanks to the Herculean efforts [...]
You want me to pay to keep from being blacklisted?
I’ll give you some hints. You have to pay $20 to get on the list They say that email from “your IP & domain will bypass spam filters” and that is a good reason to spend your $20 on them. They promise to let you see data on who is sending email using your domain. [...]
Barracuda’s Advertisement-pop-ups Category
This morning I noticed an email asking about a domain being blocked by Barracuda’s Web Filter due to a classification of “advertisement-pop-ups”. The implication of the note was that Barracuda was accusing a particular site of running pop-up advertisements. After doing some research and talking with someone who knows, here’s the skinny: “Advertisement-pop-ups” is a [...]
47 USC 230 explained in English
Occasionally, we’ve discussed 47 USC 230 in a spam context, usually regarding blocklist immunity from lawsuits. Now, Prof. Goldman has an intro to the statute up in plain English.
Video in Email
I am asked about embedding Flash or Windows Media files in email on a fairly regular basis. I always advise against it. It never seems to deliver well and it also suffers from degradation in service. That is to say that it doesn’t seem to get where you want it as often, and when it [...]
Hit “Reply to All” and face disciplinary action
The Associated Press reports that the US State Department has issued orders to its Washington’s headquarters and overseas missions to curtail the use of the “Reply to All” function of their email clients. Why? Because a recent storm involving a blank email sent to several thousand recipients created what was, in effect, a distributed denial [...]
