Roadrunner shifted the release date for their new FBL to December 14th.
Despite rumors, the Yahoo FBL is not actually accepting new participants.
November 12, 2008
FBL updates
12November
November 12, 2008
AOL and DKIM
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 AOL has been hinting at for most of 2008. As part of this, AOL has deployed an address where any sender can check the...
November 11, 2008
Two reasons not to buy a list
11November
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 Internet Retailer’s list of 2008 conference attendees. Internet Retailer is disputing...
November 10, 2008
Twittering
10November
Yes, I finally succumbed to peer pressure and started twittering as wise_laura. Stop on by and introduce yourselves.
November 7, 2008
e360 v. Comcast
07November
Mickey has new docs up at Spamsuite in the case between e360 and Comcast.
November 6, 2008
New AOL postmaster blog
06November
AOL has their new postmaster blog up and running at . Today they announced new tools over there including a FBL checking tool and a block checking tool.
November 5, 2008
Gmail problems
05November
Some people have been reporting problems with mail to gmail backing up. Steve has some information about the problem. I’m seeing comments in a few places that some gmail MXes (but not all) are tempfailing some pipelined SMTP transactions, which is causing mail being sent there by some smarthosts to back up. I don’t have details, but if you’re seeing “451 4.5.0 SMTP...
November 5, 2008
Bad Idea
My mailbox and IM windows have been swamped with messages about an ISP sending out mail to participants in their FBL program. It seems this particular ISP could use some delivery consulting. See, this ISP sent out emails with blocks of 50 – 75 email addresses in the To: line. Bad idea. Delivery wise, I do not expect that they had many delivery problems. In the copy I saw, most of the...
November 4, 2008
Go vote!
04November
If you are a US citizen, do not forget to go vote today. This is it, the culmination of way too many months of politicking and campaigning. Be part of the finish.
November 3, 2008
SpamZa fails again
03November
The SpamZa folks have been attempting to use this blog (and probably other blogs) to get out their message that their website can be used to abuse both recipients and senders. They have been having connectivity problems, most likely due to their abuse being unacceptable to the upstreams they could find. Now, faced with the utter failure of their spam people project, they are attempting to post...
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