Spam
It’s all about….
What does it take to get someone to understand that emailing is about accuracy and permission? ZoomInfo appears not to get this. Well, I actually think that they do get it, but they just don’t care about it. Getting permission before emailing is bad for business at least as far as I can see that [...]
Hackers Crack CAPTCHA
Hackers Crack CAPTCHA with artificial intelligence, not cheap, 3rd World laborers. And it appears to be at least 60% effective. participate
Watch what you’re doing!
Several readers have written to me with a link to the Red Tape Chronicles report that AT&T has been caught tagging its own Terms of Service Update Noticiations as spam. Last month, AT&T made some controversial changes to its Internet policies. Verbiage indicating that high-bandwidth users might experience some intentional slowdowns irritated some techies; another [...]
Sending email to wireless domains?
One question that I get asked a lot has to do with sending email to wireless domains. So, I’ll lay out the answer here for all the world to see: No unsolicited messages may be sent to a recipient on a mobile domain for any reason, period. Here’s the general rule from the FCC’s Order [...]
Dog Bites Man: IAB Suggests You Follow the Law
The IAB has issued its Email Data Management Best Practices document and suggests that you only send mail to people who have agreed to receive mail from you. They also appear to have started drinking a bit of Kool-Aidetm and are recommending that you share your suppression files with third parties, but that you encrypt [...]
“I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America”
Looks like there is a satirical email mocking the economic bailout sent in the style of a 419 spam. participate
How Harmful is Jaynes?
In the long run, not very, and I anticipate that it will even be somewhat useful. As John Levine points out, the only real application of the Virginia Supreme Court’s decision as far as the Virginia statute at issue is to Jaynes himself. I’m not going to belabor the First Amendment section. It’s been covered [...]
Lessons Learned From Politicians
B to B has an interesting article: “Election ’08: The candidates’ e-mail errors” It lists four mistakes: Signup problems (including Obama’s site’s demand that you contribute!!) Lack of welcome messages Lack of relevance Obama’s list uses CAPTCHA on the unsubscribe page, something that would be illegal for you to do Really, these things are Email [...]
Things that make you go “Hmmmmm”
Ken Magill has another article up on EmailAppenders. What I find interesting is the “Devin Juan”/”Prakash Kotian” angle. Apparently this person is writing to people reporting on the EmailAppenders/Javelin Marketing incident trying to get articles critical of EmailAppenders removed. The emails quoted in the article are also interesting because they appear to make some accusations [...]
When should you use RSS instead of email?
Here’s an interesting read and take on the Randy Cunningham broadside against Yahoo! When is Spam not Spam? The thing is, it kind of is spam. I know that it’s not unsolicited and Randy doesn’t share his email lists and he has an unsubscribe link and honours all the unsubscribe requests promptly, but really, why [...]
Mickey Chandler's Spamtacular. 
