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Gmail makes another change
Gmail has been busy making some changes lately and not all of them are under the hood. One of those changes is to their user interface. If the From: domain doesn’t match the domain of the sender, then Gmail will now display the domain of the sender as well after a “via:” notation. So, the [...]
Oral arguments in e360 v. Spamhaus
There were oral arguments yesterday in David Linhardt’s longshot of a lawsuit against Spamhaus. You can listen to the mp3 here. My impressions are that e360 is likely toast. In fact, I think that there is some chance, after hearing Judge Pozner refer to the damages case put on by e360 and it’s attorneys as [...]
An Average Email User Responds
As I mentioned in my last post, I asked my dad to have a look at Gretchen Scheiman’s MediaPost post. My dad is a baby boomer and I think is a relatively normal email user. He does not know (nor does he care) how spam filters or mail servers work. He calls me when his [...]
What will not happen today
Image via Wikipedia As I sit here punching out a quick blog post, it’s still about a half hour until what is supposed to be the huge announcement that Facebook is launching an email service. So, I am going to take a couple of minutes to make some predictions. And rather than predicting what an [...]
Somebody hasn’t read all of the CAN-SPAM Act
Image via Wikipedia Big news today appears to be a couple of lawsuits filed by Holomaxx Technologies. One was filed against Yahoo and Cisco and the other against Microsoft and Return Path. In both, Holomaxx makes some statements that indicate that they don’t have a firm grasp of the CAN-SPAM Act. Here’s a snippet: HOLOMAXX [...]
SORBS blocks Gandi.net
Image via Wikipedia In a blog post on 5 March 2010, (original French version), Gandi.net asserts that it has been blocked by SORBS since last December. The accusations seem to be almost par for the course when accusations are leveled against SORBS. Namely, Gandi is saying that SORBS Feels that it is “above the law” [...]
Ken Magill Leaves Penton
I’m glad that my friend Al Iverson posted about Ken Magill leaving Penton Media. For some reason I never got this week’s copy of his email newsletter. I’m also really happy to see Ken go. There was nothing quite so sad as finding an email detailing the hack journalistic exploits of the town drunk trying [...]
Top 10 Posts of 2009
So, yesterday I put out a list of the bottom 10 posts of 2009. I promised then that I’d put out a list of the top 10 posts today, and here they are (in reverse order — #1 is really #10). IP relisted despite no more mail being sent. It seems like I blogged about [...]
Bottom 10 posts of 2009
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. 47 USC 230 Explained in English. This was mainly [...]
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 [...]
