http://blog.wordtothewise.com Spam, delivery, email and more Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:39:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I tend to avoid online sites that require you to register and provide information including email addresses. In my experiences companies cannot resist sending email and my email load is extremely heavy and I want less email, not more. Sometimes, though, what I need to do requires an online registration ... http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/11/just-leave-me-alone-already/ There has been a very long, ongoing discussion on one of my mailing lists about whether or not feedback loops are a net good or a net harm. I believe, overall, they are a net good, but there are people who believe they are not. The biggest objection is that ... http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/11/feedback-loops-net-benefit-or-net-harm/ Last week a major player in the botnet arena was taken offline when they were shutdown by their upstream provider.  With the demise of McColo, there has been a 30 - 50% drop in the amount of spam as measured by any number of different techniques. The CBL team has ... http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/11/mccolo-goes-offline/ I recently received an email from someone I do not know. This email was welcoming me to the friends and family beta of a new website. This email got under my skin a bit and it has been one of those weeks and so I decided to reply to the ... http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/11/dont-do-this/ One common argument that spammers use to support their "right" to spam is that they have a first amendment right to free speech. My counter to this argument has always been that most networks are private and not government run and therefore there is no first amendment right involved. I ... http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/11/first-amemdment-and-spam/ Roadrunner shifted the release date for their new FBL to December 14th. Despite rumors, the Yahoo FBL is not actually accepting new participants. http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/11/fbl-updates/ Yesterday, on an ESPC call, Mike Adkins of AOL announced upcoming changes to the AOL reputation system. As part of these changes, AOL will be checking DKIM on the inbound. Best estimates are that this will be deployed in the first half of 2009, possibly in Q1. This is something ... http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/11/aol-and-dkim/ Ken Magill, celebrity, has two articles today that highlight the issue with buying lists from vendors. The first is yet another article about EmailAppenders selling bad data. In this case, it is not the buyers who are complaining. According to Ken EmailAppenders are sending out email advertising they can sell ... http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/11/two-reasons-not-to-buy-a-list/ Yes, I finally succumbed to peer pressure and started twittering as wise_laura. Stop on by and introduce yourselves. http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/11/twittering/ Mickey has new docs up at Spamsuite in the case between e360 and Comcast. http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2008/11/e360-v-comcast/