Archive for the ‘Abuse Desk Stories’ Category
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Laura Atkins has a lively discussion going on about Postini's lack of response to deliverability/blocking questions.
We've been frustrated and bewildered by random Postini blocks ourselves (see here and here). We gave up on trying to contact Postini a while ago.
But just recently, we had a customer sending tests to their ...
Posted in Abuse Desk Stories, MailChimp News, Spam Topics | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
There's an interesting post over at the Word To The Wise blog about the "Report Spam" button.
Apparently, some marketing folks (Q Interactive and MarketingSherpa) ran a survey that suggests the button is meaningless now. That's because too many people click "Report Spam" when all they really want to do ...
Posted in Abuse Desk Stories, Emarketing, Business, IMHO, Spam Topics | No Comments »
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Ken Magill has a story over at DIRECT about how Barack Obama's email list has been tainted by pranksters. Basically, some pranksters signed up to Obama's list using some prominent anti-spammers' email addresses. It's an example of how a very high profile email list is at risk if you don't ...
Posted in Abuse Desk Stories, Spam Topics | 2 Comments »
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
There are people out there who are secretly reading and judging your email marketing campaigns. If you don't take these people into consideration whenever you create your campaigns, you're placing your company's reputation at stake and you could get blacklisted. Who are these people, and what exactly are they looking ...
Posted in Abuse Desk Stories, Deliverability, Emarketing, Business, Spam Topics, Tips, Tricks, Best Practices | 6 Comments »
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
A very nice web designer from a small town in North Carolina sent out a promotional email campaign for her client, a local beauty salon. It invited recipients to "come in and get a manicure" at a discount. It was her client's first email campaign.
Immediately after she sent ...
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Monday, April 2nd, 2007
One of our customers just got blacklisted by an anti-spam organization for his recent email campaign. The customer is a graphic designer, sending campaigns on behalf of his client. The list he was sending to was a list of his client's customers.
They were basically offering a prize to their valued ...
Posted in Abuse Desk Stories, Deliverability, Spam Topics, Tips, Tricks, Best Practices | 2 Comments »
