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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 [...]
Reading Terms of Service
Mark Nestmann has an interesting blog post up about American Express. Here’s an excerpt of their new terms of service, effective 2 April 2009: You authorize us to call or send a text message to you at any number you give us or from which you call us, including mobile phones. You authorize us to [...]
Lycos Europe mail shutdown date
Lycos Europe It’s no real surprise that Lycos Europe is shutting down. What wasn’t known was the date of the shutdown. That’s now known: February 15. A quick and dirty check of hosts using Lycos Europe’s MXes reveals that the shutdown will affect the following domains (Update: now greatly expanded thanks to the Herculean efforts [...]
Hit “Reply to All” and face disciplinary action
The Associated Press reports that the US State Department has issued orders to its Washington’s headquarters and overseas missions to curtail the use of the “Reply to All” function of their email clients. Why? Because a recent storm involving a blank email sent to several thousand recipients created what was, in effect, a distributed denial [...]
