Email news for Thursday, April 26, 2007
April 26th, 2007 by Randy Stewart, Product Manager
Major Anti-Spam Lawsuit Filed in Virginia – Washington Post
“The company filed the suit on behalf of some 20,000 people who use its anti-spam tool. Web site owners use the project’s free software to generate pages that feature unique “spam trap” e-mail addresses each time those pages are visited. The software then records the Internet address of the visitor and the date and time of the visit. Because those addresses are never used to sign up for e-mail lists, the software can help investigators draw connections between harvesters and spammers if an address generated by a spam trap or “honey pot” later receives junk e-mail.” [via Ars Technica and Slashdot]
Before you declare email bankruptcy – Web Worker Daily
“Did you ever wish you could delete all your email without responding? Maybe you can. It’s called email bankruptcy. You realize you are never going to dig yourself out from under the pile of email in your inbox so you just declare that you won’t. You start afresh.”
Great tips on how to avoid an email overload calamity. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve considered doing this.
Classic DM tactics are spam for filters – Direct Marketing News
“More and more well-intended e-mail is ending up in the junk box as companies and individuals tighten the screws on their anti-spam systems.”
Interesting article about the multitude of false positives that are generated by standard email spam filters.