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MickC @ August 22, 2008 # One Comment
Macworld’s Christopher Breen speaks out against unnecessary C/R
Breaking away from the traditional Q&A format today, I’d like to offer a small piece of advice to Earthlink customers:
Earthlink’s spamBlocker is the tool of the devil if it’s not configured properly.
MickC @ August 18, 2008 # One Comment
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 do we [...]
MickC @ August 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Remember CAN-SPAM is opt-out, not opt-in law :: BtoB Magazine
In the article “Give your e-mail marketing new life,” (July 14, page 20), a senior director of ReturnPath is reported to have said that with e-mail databases being populated from multiple sources, “there’s more of a chance that your list contains e-mail addresses of people who [...]
MickC @ July 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Eddie Davidson has escaped from a minimum security federal prison in Florence, Colorado.
Since Florence also houses medium and high security (plus the Administrative Maximium Security or “Supermax”) prisons, I would expect that he might be changing houses when he is caught.
The Denver Post, also 9news.com
You can keep up with things (to a very small degree) [...]
MickC @ July 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Rebecca Leib has an interesting read about inactive lists:
Inactive E-mail List: Mail or Don’t Mail?
I didn’t mention it yesterday, but you might want to also check out an article that was described by some of my colleagues in email delivery as “somewhat wierd”:
Is It Spam?
MickC @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sophos report: Only one in 28 emails legitimate, reveals rising tide of spam in April - June 2008
By June 2008, research reveals that the level of spam had risen to
96.5% of all business email. Having risen from a figure of 92.3% in the
first three months of the year, corporations are now facing the fact
that only [...]
MickC @ July 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced that it has been awarded U.S. Patent: 7,373,385, for Cloudmark’s Global Threat Network™ technology.
This patented technology, the Global Threat Network system, is the industry’s first collaborative threat detection system. The Global Threat Network system consists of 600 million trusted reporting sources, including service provider [...]
MickC @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Threat Level post:
A central element to the agreement is a provision giving affected customers a one-year subscription to spam-blocking software. The Trend Micro Internet Security Pro retails for about $70. TD Ameritrade said it struck a deal with Trend Micro to service the settlement agreement for about $6 million, the parties told Walker in court [...]
MickC @ July 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Botnets winning spam wars, says report
It’s an interesting, if somewhat depressing, article:
The world’s antispam systems are fighting a furious but hopeless battle against botnet spam, a new threat analysis from Commtouch has claimed.
According to the U.S. company’s zombie monitor, by the time that reputation and source analysis systems have identified compromised PCs and servers [...]
MickC @ July 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Dallas Morning News reports a new email scam making the rounds.
The body of the e-mail says the AG is contacting everyone and includes the following paragraph:
“We wish to inform you that your transaction with the United Nations concerning your package that is on hold now is a legitimate transaction and you must try and [...]
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