I added a few blogs to my blogroll today. Terry Zink works at Microsoft handling spam blocking issues for one of their platforms. His posts offer insight into how recipient administrators view spam filtering. He has a long, information dense series of posts on email authentication. E-mail, tech policy, and more is written by John Levine, a general expert on almost everything internet, especially...
Over the last couple days multiple people have asserted to me that Yahoo is greylisting mail. The fact that Yahoo itself asserts it is not using greylisting as a technique to control mail seems to have no effect on the number of people who believe that Yahoo is greylisting. Deeply held beliefs by many senders aside, Yahoo is not greylisting. Yahoo is using temporary failures (4xx) as a way to...
Ken Magill has a post up mentioning the top 40 companies in email marketing. Some highlights: Goodmail: This firm has been under fire and in the news so often that it has helped me make more deadlines than any other company on this list. SubscriberMail: They’re in Chicago. ExactTarget: They’re in Indianapolis. Editor’s note: If your company did not appear on The Magilla Marketing List of Top 40...
A number of ISPs have email information and postmaster sites available. I found myself compiling a list of them for a client today and thought that I would put up a list here.
AOL:
Juno/Netzero/UnitedOnline:
MSN/Hotmail:
RoadRunner:
Spamcop:
Yahoo:
DMNews interviewed Charles before he left AOL about the state of spam and the challenges for ISPs and how that affects senders. The article was published this week. In it he talks about The botnet problem and what AOL is doing to combat it How AOL monitors its users What kinds of things AOL measures for mail, including email sources and volume How AOL leaves some filtering to users through the...
Seth Godin links to a post up over on The Long Tail about spammers who send PR mail to Chris Anderson, an editor at wired. Apparently lots of people send automated email to the editor of Wired hawking their latest and greatest product, service or photos. In response to this overwhelming amount of mail, Chris has instituted a new email acceptance policy. He says So fair warning: I only want two...
Charles Stiles, who managed the postmaster team at AOL and was laid off 2 weeks ago, is the new VP of Worldwide Business Development at Goodmail.
Ken Magill mentioned the possibility of Charles moving to Goodmail yesterday.
The recent layoffs at AOL did affect the AOL Postmaster desk, and information I have received is that there was significant loss. As a result of the staff decrease, some changes have been made to the whitelisting and FBL processes. In order for a FBL to be approved it must meet the new FBL guidelines. In a nutshell, anyone wanting to get a FBL from AOL must meet ONE of the following criteria. The...
A number of groups provide tools for monitoring email performance. Some of these tools are provided by ISPs, like Hotmail and AOL have postmaster webpages. Hotmail also provides things like SNDS so you can monitor what Hotmail is seeing about your network. Al has a new blacklist stats center over at DNSBL.com. Of interest is the accuracy of some of the widely used lists like Spamhaus, Spamcop...
The MAAWG Sender Subcommittee has published a Sender Best Current Practices document. This document details what the current best practices in the sending industry are. Summarized the document says: Senders must get clear and conspicuous consent from recipients. In other words, recipients should know what they are signing up for and what kind of mail they should expect. Senders must provide...
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