Everyone else is busy publishing their top 10 list of posts for 2009. I’ll do that tomorrow, but I figured that today, I would start by looking at the bottom 10 posts. These would be ones that you may have missed, or may have disagreed with.

1. 47 USC 230 Explained in English. This was mainly a link post. I wasn’t using Twitter back then or it might have just gone there, but 47 USC 230 is an important statute that has had application in everything from web hosting to spam filtering.
2. Barracuda’s Advertisement-pop-ups Category. This post might have been just a little bit whiny on my part. Barracuda sets websites into certain categories, and they put all websites dealing in advertising into the “Advertising-pop-ups” category. I still think it’s poorly named, and that their “this is industry standard” excuse is just a canard, but it’s their system.
3. You want me to pay to keep from being blacklisted? This post was about Emailreg.org, which still, even to this day, appears to be a shadow for Barracuda. It’s a whitelist mainly used by their appliance, and it’s hosted on their network. And you have to pay money to be included on it.
4. Lycos Europe Mail Shutdown Date. This one is pretty much what it looks like: an announcement about an impending domain demise as Lycos Europe shut down its mail operations.
5. Russians Selling Spam Lists. Here’s another one that would likely have been posted to Twitter had I been using it back when I posted it. Symantec posted some evidence that Russian spammers are selling email lists.
6. Can I use images to display my URIs?. This is a brief post on how using an image instead of text to display a link in your email may not be the world’s greatest idea.
7. Hypertouch Loses. Here’s a quick post on a small ISP losing a court case. My beef with this one was a quote by a defense attorney saying that a trial court level case set a precedent.
8. Could Spamford be going to jail?. Here was another post that maybe should have gone to Twitter instead of being a post on the site. Sanford “Spamford” Wallace was being threatened with some jail time for contempt of court for violating an injunction from his loss to Facebook.
9. Video in Email. Here’s a post I really wish more people had seen as it discusses a topic that I get asked about a lot: Can we embed videos into email. The answer, unsurprisingly, is that it’s not any more likely to succeed now as it was three years ago.
10. Reading Terms of Service. How often do you read the Privacy Policies of the sites you visit? How often do you think your customers/recipients do?