Mickey asks if you want to be the sender that funds the lawsuit that establishes case law about your new, nifty process.
Israel Spam Law
Israel has passed a new anti-spam law requiring senders to only send opt-in email, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Anger
Seth Godin writes about angry people. Every marketer should ask where their recipients are on that curve.
Yahoo suing lottery spammers
Yahoo filed suit against spammers using the Yahoo trademarks in lottery spam on May 19th.
Postini bug
Ben over at MailChimp has an article talking about a recent experience with Postini and an actual bug that causes Postini to interact badly with another spamfilter and block non-spam.
Finding your relevancy
Ken Magill reported today that Responsys has unveiled a tool to measure the relevancy of email marketing programs. This tool is intended to help marketers implement the advice “be more relevant.”
Email related blog communities
I have recently become aware of 2 new blog communities based around email marketing.
One is a feedburner community Email Marketing Expert
The other is Box of Meat
Enjoy.
AOL Postmaster blog
AOL announced today they are launching a postmaster blog
I’ll be updating the blogroll, too. I’ve been checking out some new delivery / marketing blogs the last few weeks.
Email authentication
The great folks over at MailChimp have compiled a list of which authentication methods (DK, DKIM, SPF and SenderID) are in use at which ISPs.
Good stuff and very clear showing who is using what authentication.
Email Marketing for Dummies
Mark Brownlow has an interview with the author of Email Marketing For Dummies. It is a great summary of the book and gives some good hints to anyone interested in starting to use email as a marketing and customer retention tool.