Ken Magill has another article up on EmailAppenders.1
I find the “Devin Juan”/”Prakash Kotian” angle interesting. 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 that may be related to the dispute between EmailAppenders and Javelin Marketing. Namely, the “person who promoted this press release is already black listed and cheated many people” part.
Now, perhaps Juan/Kotian was referring to some insurance/annuity industry blacklist that I know nothing about. But, one typical result of spamming (as Javelin appears to have done, at least as a result of the list purchased from EmailAppenders) is being listed on DNSBLs. That’s a practice commonly referred to as “blacklisting”. This may mean that EmailAppenders are using the result of the use of their list to denigrate their dissatisfied customer.
Footnotes
- Ken Magill, Umm… About EmailAppenders’ NYC Office, Direct (2008), https://web.archive.org/web/20080911231542/http://directmag.com/magill/0909-email-appenders/ (last visited Sep 9, 2008). ↩︎
About the Author
Mickey is a Consultant & Attorney with over 28 years of experience in Email Deliverability & Privacy Law. He has a strong background in email authentication infrastructure (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), ISP and mailbox provider relations, anti-spam policy and compliance, CAN-SPAM and state anti-spam law gained through overseeing the Abuse & Compliance team at Salesforce Marketing Cloud, originating the ISP relations role at Informz (now part of Higher Logic), and working in the fight against spam since 1997. He holds a B.A. in Government, a B.S. in Computer Information Systems, and a J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center. He is a certified CIPP/US professional and a certified CIPM professional.
