Archive for the ‘Spam Topics’ Category
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Interesting thoughts from "Taking Down Spammers" at ZDNet:
"A law was passed in the United States which addressed online gambling operations (”Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act” - UIGEA). As a result, the public gaming industry ceased accepting online wagers...Spam decreased. The underlying cause for that was that the clients weren’t there ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
I like to browse through my spam folder every once in a while. It's the best way I know to learn "what not to do" for my own email newsletters.
I stumbled upon a pretty interesting piece of spam this morning (click thumbnail to zoom in---I censored the naughty stuff). It ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
A little while back we mentioned some spam filters were automatically clicking every single link inside of email campaigns, to check out the reputation of the landing page.
The problem was that these spam filters were also automatically clicking our one-click unsubscribe link. While it's not a widespread problem (yet), we ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Here's a nice resource from Clickz on how to contact major ISP abuse desks. This is handy if you're managing your own email marketing in-house, and have found your IP or domain getting blacklisted.
What Do the ISPs Want from You? Check the Web
I'll throw in a couple of our own ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
I thought the confusing opt-out example from Equifax that I posted a while back was pretty bad.
This one's a close second:
C'mon. If you don't want something, you say "NO."
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
I like to think I'm on top of email and spam issues, but this one made me do a double take:
The Sound of Spam - article from TechSoup
Apparently, spammers are sending MP3 spam now. They have filenames like "elvis.mp3" but when you open them, you get an audio clip of ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Spam filters learned that spammers pretty much use the same URLs and domains for their spam.
So they started to store the URLs that spammers use.
Then spammers learned that they can just keep making up new domains really fast.
Then spam filters started to block emails that contained "fresh" new domains ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Found this link over at Al Iverson's SpamResource.com. An editor at Wired is posting email addresses of all the public relations agencies that send him unsolicited press releases via email.
If you run a PR agency, and you send unsolicited emails in bulk, yes---that's spam.
Send them one at a time, then ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Maybe I've been out of touch for too long, but I just now noticed that BarracudaCentral has made their IP and domain lookup tools available to the public.
http://www.barracudacentral.com/index.cgi?p=lookups
Sorry if it's old news, but this is totally new to me, and it's very good news. Before, there was no way ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Today, we had the great honor of live chatting with King Erediawa, of Benin Land. He initiated the live chat on MailChimp.com, and spoke with our customer service team. Apparently, the king was looking for an email inbox service. You know, so he could send business proposals to a few ...
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