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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 [...]
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 [...]
Guest Blog: Consumers Cautiously Optimistic about the Future
Today, we have a guest blog from the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE). CAUCE has been heavily involved in crafting a worthy anti-spam law in Canada, so I reached out to them to see if they would like like to guest blog here. Neil Schwartzman, CAUCE’s Executive Director, wrote back with the following:
SORBS Closure Imminent
SORBS wasn’t best DNSBL in the world. For instance, they listed all of one ESP’s net space because the maintainer had personal issues with the contact point at the ESP. As I recall, on their explanation of those blocks, they said that they were listing the space and that the contact point “is not an [...]
AOL: WL/FBL Request System Offline
The AOL Postmaster Blog reports that the AOL Feedback Loop and Whitelist Request system is temporarily offline due to technical issues.
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 [...]
Shameless Self-Promotion
