Law
What’s in your wallet? Spam!
In the annals of Bad Marketing Ideas comes this attempt by Capital One to define any mail they choose to send to be transactional mail: Kevin, a 40-year-old from Sacramento, Calif., likes to keep a tidy inbox. He’s very deliberate about removing himself from mailing lists and anything else that might clog up his e-mail. [...]
Could Spamford be going to jail?
Accused Facebook spammer could face jail time – Facebook, jail, lawsuits, legal – Computerworld Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California referred Sanford Wallace to the U.S. Attorney General’s Office for criminal proceedings for allegedly violating an injunction that prohibited him from accessing Facebook.
A CAN-SPAM Checklist
Today we’re going to create a checklist of things required for CAN-SPAM compliance. So, you want to make sure that you actually comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and not just say that you do. This post isn’t for you. You might learn something here and if you do, that’s great. But, instead, this [...]
When Attorneys General talk about email….
In the spirit of the last post, let me turn our laser-like focus on people who should know better. After all, you don’t really expect a web analytics expert to really understand something like CAN-SPAM since it doesn’t really affect them. On the other hand, you probably do expect to see someone tasked with enforcing [...]
When web experts opine about email…
you get incredibly dumb statements like this one: Like promotional e-mail, transactional e-mail by nature bypasses search engines. Uh? What? My car also by nature bypasses search engines (although it does, in fact, have an engine of its own, thus providing at least as much linkage to search engines as transactional email has). Maria Krueger [...]
Hypertouch Loses
California Judge Rules In Favor Of ValueClick Kevin Rosen and Ashlie Berenger of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles, attorneys for ValueClick, said the ruling sets a precedent for other commercial advertisers across the nation. I really hate quotes like that. A state-level trial court ruling doesn’t really provide much of a precedent for [...]
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. api
Elsevier shows how not to do it
In October of 2004, I registered with the Lancet in order to gain access to an article. Since that point, Elsevier Ltd., has been sending me email. After their mailing on July 11 of this year, I finally got tired of it, went to their website, and cleared all of the checkboxes. That is to [...]
Guilty Plea in Ralsky Case
Judy Devenow has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and aiding fraud in the Ralsky case.
Did Spamhaus help create a legend?
Threat Level asks an interesting question: “Did Anti-Spam Group Create a Backstory For DarkMarket’s Undercover Fed?“
Mickey Chandler's Spamtacular. 
