2008

Jul

26%, but who cares?

The Email Wars chomps some numbers on email use by real users, concluding that  marketers need to...
Jul 22nd
Wireless Week: CTIA Rallies Against Spam, But...
Jul 22nd
Twitter Notices "Invasion of the Spammers"
Jul 22nd
SC Magazine US: Cybersecurity and the...
Jul 21st
Network World: Romainian authorities arrest...
Jul 21st
Economic Times: Ybrant Digital to buy Scott...
Jul 21st
Washington Post Security Fix: Site Redirects...
Jul 17th
Terry Zink's Anti-spam Blog: The problem of...
Jul 17th
Seth’s Blog: If you don’t want to get...
Jul 16th
CAUCE North America: Good news from three...
Jul 16th
Plagiarism Today: Spotting Spam Blogs
Jul 16th
The Guardian: Lessons from the bloody war on...
Jul 16th
Bump bump bump....
Jul 16th
Teens herald the death of email
Jul 16th
CircleID: Anti-Phishing and Hong Kong
Jul 14th
Getting Email Delivered: How the Email...
Jul 13th
Sky News: Crackdown On Junk Mail Email Spam...
Jul 13th
ARF in relation to the AOL FBL
Jul 13th
MailChimp: Warning signs your client is...
Jul 10th
CircleID: An Astonishing Collaboration
Jul 10th

Let the Meat-Boxing Begin!

Ut oh, we’ve got comments now!  Just click on the “comments” link at the bottom of...
Jul 9th
John Levine: Yes, you really have a zombie on...
Jul 9th
The Industry Standard: Web companies organize...
Jul 8th
UIUC School of Business: Study: Personal...
Jul 8th
John Levine: Why new TLDs don't matter
Jul 8th
ComputerWorld: ICANN blames June site hijack...
Jul 8th

Best Privacy Policy Ever

Least there were honest ;) http://www.buynlarge.com/disclaimer/disclaimer.html Yes, this is a joke...
Jul 8th
Marketing Fail, from the failblog.
Jul 7th
“Meatpaper is a print magazine of art and ideas about...
Jul 6th
Open CRS Network: "Spam": An Overview of...
Jul 6th
TechSpot: McAfee conducts spam experiment,...
Jul 6th
Zakazukha Zoo: Definition of spam: Only send...
Jul 6th
Slate: What's "Port 25," and what does it...
Jul 2nd
Seth's Blog: The statesman, the lawyer and...
Jul 2nd
Intellectual Intercourse: ESPC: Simplicity is...
Jul 1st
Washington Post Security Fix: Amazon: Hey...
Jul 1st
Washington Post Security Fix: Forty Percent...
Jul 1st

Jun

Marian Bantjes: spam one “This drawing was made for...
Jun 30th
Return Path: MAAWG's Latest Documents Improve...
Jun 27th
ZDnet: ICANN and IANA’s domains hijacked by...
Jun 27th
Freakonomics (New York Times): Why Do You...
Jun 27th
PC World: Woman Gets Two Years for Aiding...
Jun 27th
The Email Wars: Please Remove Me From Your List
Jun 26th
PC World: Antispam Group Outlines Defenses to...
Jun 26th
A VC: Losing A Phone - A Social Media...
Jun 26th
SC Magazine US: Szirbi botnet causes spam to...
Jun 26th
Washington Post: Former Customers Off Limits...
Jun 25th
TheSpoof.com: Prime Minister presents first...
Jun 25th
ClickZ: Get the "And" Out!
Jun 24th
Deliverability.com: When email marketers and...
Jun 24th
New York Times Digital Domain: In the E-Mail...
Jun 24th
FTC Halts Cross Border Con Artists
Jun 24th
Spam Resource: When Terminology Attacks
Jun 24th
duncanriley.com: NAB Spams Blogs
Jun 24th
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the...
Jun 24th
Washington Post Security Fix: Anonymous...
Jun 19th
Keter_Magick: eBay Fraud - Got the S.O.B.!
Jun 19th
NPR: Help! Family Spam Is Crushing My Inbox!
Jun 19th
People like to share: Are social networks...
Jun 19th
New York Times: How to Block Cellphone Spam
Jun 19th
Yahoo! News: Former 'spam King' Must Pay...
Jun 19th
ClickZ: What Whitelisting's Evolution Means...
Jun 12th
Dark Reading: Researchers Link Storm Botnet...
Jun 12th
Ever wondered how domain registration really works?  John...
Jun 12th
STAT Blog: Registrars Release Suspended...
Jun 11th
Bronto Blog: Petition to Ban The Phrase...
Jun 11th
The Gripe Line: FTC says yes, you still Can...
Jun 11th
Australian IT: Online crooks up the ante
Jun 10th
The Spam Diaries: A rising new threat:...
Jun 7th
Word to the Wise: Marketers missing out
Jun 6th
Seth's Blog: The cure
Jun 6th
PC World: Spear-phishing Attacks Have Hooked...
Jun 6th
Deliverability.com: Wake up classmates, you...
Jun 6th
I saw this years ago, but have since lost the image. ...
Jun 6th
“she will taken in 100% all your...
Jun 6th
MarketingProfs Knowledge Exchange: Lawyer...
Jun 5th
MailChannels Offers Load Testing Tool
Jun 5th
UserFriendly
Jun 5th
ZDNet Australia: Recruiters auto-forward...
Jun 5th
BBC NEWS: Child porn arrests in Australia
Jun 5th
PlagiarismToday: The Rise of Made-For-Amazon...
Jun 4th
OnlyOnce: Book Short: How, Now
Jun 4th
Email Marketing Reports: Win by being less...
Jun 4th
San Jose Mercury News: Courts mustn't stifle...
Jun 4th
Network World: Hong Kong, China Web domains...
Jun 4th
Word to the Wise: ISP Spam
Jun 3rd
Techdirt: Inside Craigslist's Increasingly...
Jun 3rd
Return Path: Anatomy of Forged Spam
Jun 2nd
MailChannels Anti-Spam Blog: Spamhaus uses...
Jun 2nd
Deliverability.com: Nortel to Block...
Jun 2nd
io9: How Will You Stop the Flood of Spam in...
Jun 2nd
Mainichi Daily News: Japan passes law to...
Jun 2nd

May

PC World: Web 2.0 Sites a Thriving...
May 30th
Wired: Comcast Hijackers Say They Warned the Company...
May 30th

Mean Ol' ISPs, WAHHHH

Friend of mine had a call a few days ago with a customer of theirs. They’re having some...
May 30th
OECD: Malicious Software (Malware): A...
May 30th
Intellectual Intercourse: Do you want to fund...
May 29th
Intellectual Intercourse: A 13 Year Old Gives...
May 29th
NZ Herald: Hacker in $300,000 ATM fraud...
May 29th
Broadband Reports: Comcast Domain Hacked -...
May 29th
Jerusalem Post: Knesset outlaws unsolicited...
May 29th
Seth's Blog: Angry people are different
May 28th
Return Path: From the Email Insiders Summit:...
May 28th
Email Marketing Reports: The hidden costs of...
May 28th
SFGate: Yahoo files suit against lottery...
May 28th
ClickZ: Inside MySpace's War on Marketing...
May 27th
A (Budding) Sociologist’s Commonplace Book:...
May 27th
ICANN: "Worst spam offenders" notified by...
May 27th
Center for the Childbearing Year: Delivery...
May 25th
Obayanahannahlwd: Rise: Preventing spam.
May 25th
US FBI: Phishing Related to Issuance of...
May 25th
Microsoft Research: How Dynamic are IP...
May 25th
ClickZ: What Is Your E-mail's Value?
May 23rd
ZDNet Australia: Antivirus is 'completely...
May 22nd
Adventures in Email Marketing: Political...
May 22nd
F-Secure: Phishing Piers on Legitimate Sites
May 22nd
PC World: MySpace Hit by Application Spam
May 22nd
Security Park: Employees perceive spam as an...
May 22nd
Royal Pingdom: Gallery of Network Operations...
May 22nd
DNSBL Resource: DSBL Current Status: DOWN
May 20th
InfoWorld: 38 in U.S., Romania charged in...
May 19th
Word to the Wise: Verifying email addresses
May 19th
Washington Post Security Fix: Most Spam Sites...
May 19th
CDT PolicyBeta: Charter-ing a New Course in...
May 19th
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: No new money for...
May 19th
John Levine: CAN SPAM and Affiliate Mailer...
May 19th
CircleID: A Case of Mistaken Identity
May 19th
Spammer Anti-CAPTCHA operations and...
May 17th
Warch Watch
Mahalo Daily: I’m Gonna Git You Spamma! most songs or videos about spam are insultingly bad, but...
May 16th
Email Marketing Reports: The new email...
May 16th
xkcd: security holes
May 16th
Security Bytes: Google Docs used in latest...
May 16th
The Guardian: Yahoo downgrades antispam...
May 16th
Terry Zink: Sample stats on botnets
May 15th
Joho the Blog: Jonathan Zittrain
May 15th
Slate: eBay v. Craigslist.
May 15th
Daytona Beach News-Journal: Locals accused in...
May 14th

Ebay Phishing?

Not specifically email related but close enough. ZDnet has a blog entry talking about ...
May 14th
Terry Zink: Hard to see, the future is
May 14th
Chicago Tribune: MySpace tells AP it has won...
May 14th
GCN: Whittling spam down to a manageable...
May 13th
The Email Wars: Sweet so is Google a Spammer...
May 13th
ClickZ: How E-mail Impacts Society
May 13th
Huffington Post: Dirty Tactics, Meet Spam....
May 13th
Return Path: Drawing the Line: Where We Come...
May 12th
FTC Approves New Rule Provision Under The...
May 12th
Top Tech News: Web Site Flap Prompts Alaska...
May 12th
New York Times: Spam Moves to Cellphones and...
May 12th
Security flaw turns Gmail into open-relay...
May 11th
“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word:...”
— Pearl S. Buck
May 9th
Consumerist: It's Now Completely Impossible...
May 9th
Yahoo! Mail Blog: Yahoo! Lottery...
May 9th
E-mail, tech policy and more: Dismaying...
May 9th
What a Botnet Looks Like
May 8th
Spam Resource: Behold the Box of Meat
May 7th
EmailKarma.net: EEC: Good Intentions Gone...
May 7th
better full-size; from www.ghen.be
May 7th
Spam Resource: Sender Complaints about Spam...
May 6th
Joho the Blog: Market bullying
May 6th
EmailKarma.net: CMA says e-mail marketing not...
May 5th
Jeremy Jaynes is appealing again
May 2nd
CDT PolicyBeta: Court Tells Travelers: Leave...
May 2nd
Continuations: Listening to Customers is...
May 2nd
Return Path: Email Marketing Secrets
May 1st
Joho the Blog: Keeping ID hard, shameful, or...
May 1st
John Graham-Cumming: The Spammers' Compendium...
May 1st
“Incompetence is a double-edged banana.”
— attributed (by some) to John...
May 1st
Slate Explainer: What's a "botnet"?
May 1st

Apr

ars technica: An elephant never forgets?...
Apr 30th