Author: Mickey

A recognized leader in the fight against online abuse, specializing in email anti-abuse, compliance, deliverability, privacy, and data protection. With over 20 years of experience tackling messaging abuse, I help organizations clean up their networks and maintain a safe, secure environment.
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Industry

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

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Quotable Quotes

Seen in a tweet: “Think about why you open an email in your inbox. Consider that when creating your next email campaign, would you open

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Law

A Can Spam Checklist

Today we’re going to create a checklist of things required for CAN-SPAM compliance. So, you want to make sure that you actually comply with the

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Video in email

I am asked about embedding Flash or Windows Media files in email on a fairly regular basis. I always advise against it. It never seems

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Bad Advice

The hallmark of bad advice is the “there are very clear guideline” statement which appears without an actual reference to the “very clear guideline”. A

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Email

3 Answers To 3 Questions

This morning, Mark Brownlow asks 3 questions for email deliverability experts:1 If you send your email as multipart/alternative and have a text version with wording

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Email

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 Terms of Service

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