Category: Industry

Analysis of things going on in the industry, from important announcements to emerging standards

The hard truth about email

Many clients expect email to be sort of an automatic thing. The thinking is “I should hit ‘Send’ and it should arrive within moments.” So,

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Email

Why Not To Contact Barry

Don’t pick up the phone and call Barry if any of the following conditions are true: All of these are recipes for disaster. You can

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Industry

Filters are stupid

Sometimes it bears remembering that many content filters aren’t score-based, but rather string based. Because of this, you may have to more carefully craft your

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Email

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

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Email

List Rental Is…

Peter Roebuck of AllWEBeMail (a division of All Web Promotion, Inc.) recently left a comment on Laura Atkins’ blog: rented email addresses, if done properly,

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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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