I’m Looking Through You
My birthday was last Saturday and for my birthday I got a copy of Beatles Rock Band for the Wii. One of the songs on that disc is “I’m Looking Through You” from the Rubber Soul album. In 1965, Paul McCartney was engaged to Jane Asher, but he wasn’t that happy in his relationship. That [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-08
RT @aliverson: Spam Resource: Karmasphere Reputation Services Shutting Down http://bit.ly/1PsALV # http://bit.ly/2Xbi8 # If you run a medical practice then maybe you shouldn't block on the names of various prescription medications. # Awesome: Your medical practice blocks the string "*cialis*", meaning that you block words like "Specialists" # RT @internetcases: In New Hampshire your landlord [...]
Breaking: SORBS bought by GFI (with confirmation!)
Image by HubSpot via Flickr Jed Smith is reporting that SORBS has been purchased by GFI Software for “for a cool half a mil”. Not being one to sit idly by, I went for comment directly to GFI. Here is their response, sent via David Kelleher, GFI’s PR Manager: GFI Software, a leading infrastructure provider, [...]
Use Private Domain Registration and Go to Jail?
Image via Wikipedia As reported on Spamsuite, the 9th Circuit opinion in USA v. Kilbride, (9th Cir., 2009) has been released. This is primarily an obscenity case against the defendants for sending pornographic spam email. But, it also includes a challenge to 18 U.S.C. § 1037 on vagueness grounds. 18 U.S.C. § 1037 is the [...]
Filters are stupid
Image via Wikipedia Sometimes it bears remembering that many content filters aren’t score-based, but rather string based. Because of this, you may have to more carefully craft your messages to deal with the fact that the filter cannot take context into account. And so, today I wish to share with you three different strings actually [...]
Why CAUCE is right
Ken Magill got his nose bent slightly out of joint in a post today about CAUCE’s support of a proposed anti-spam bill in Canada. Here is what CAUCE had to say: “An opt-out regime is what is made legal in America, by way of the CANSPAM act, and the United States is by far the [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-01
Ken Magill today: Slamming on CAUCE http://bit.ly/FFivl and Al Iverson http://bit.ly/30YCEw and wrong in both cases. # @aliverson Hi from the place where I'm doing the thing. in reply to aliverson # Not an Email Marketing Wizard. Now I know what to aspire to be when I grow up! http://bit.ly/2JUWuN # Home from MAAWG after [...]
