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Your delivery is yours, not your ESPs

Ken is right. As he almost always is.

I received a cold-call voicemail yesterday from a representative of an e-mail service provider looking to do a barter deal.
Never mind I’m not the person to approach for barter deals—or any other type of non-editorial issue, for that matter—the sales rep made one statement that made me cringe.
“Our delivery rates are very high,” she said.
That statement has no place in a pitch from an e-mail service provider.

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ESPs being targeted

There has been an ongoing, concerted attack against ESPs recently. Today ReturnPath published some of what is known about the attack.

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Monitoring customers at ESPs

In the past I’ve talked about vetting clients, and what best effort encompasses when ESPS try to keep bad actors out of their systems. But what does an ESP do to monitor clients ongoing? Al Iverson from ExactTarget says that they:

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