Spamhaus makes progress in court
Spamhaus, the well-known anti-spam organization has been in court, sued by Chicago area bulk mailer E360. A year ago E360 got a default judgement against Spamhaus for $11 million, which Spamhaus later appealed. The appeals court has ruled, and it looks promising for...
Famous spammer Sanford Wallace is sued yet again
Sanford Wallace, a famous spammer from the 1990s is back, in a legal tangle with MySpace, for sending a whole lot of spam to MySpace users.CAUCE board member John Levine writes about it in his blog.
Q&A: I’m being forged – HELP!
Dear CAUCE Team, We are looking for support resources to thwart a massive spam/forgery attack that misuses our company name -- claiming we are the spam source. The spam contains url links to numerous computers that apparently download viruses. We are looking for...
Q&A: Are unsubscribes just a courtesy or a requirement?
From time to time we get questions from our members and we will try to answer many of them here.I work for an organization that has a "community" portion of its site. People sign up and among the "benefits" they get is a newsletter. There is no way...
Spam: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
CAUCE board member Ray Everett Church writes at internetnews.com: According to the majority of the testimony at this month's "Spam Summit," held by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the state of the fight against spam is pretty much the same as it...
Are Invitations spam?
Q1 - I would like to know if inviting viewers of my email to subscribe to my newsletters that I send out from MyNewSite.com seen as spam? Q2 - As I surf on the internet and come across a group or individual I would like to invite to subscribe to my group on Mysite.com...
Commentary on the FTC Spam Summit
The following speech was prepared with the intention of using portions of it during the FTC Spam Summit, but CAUCE was not given the opportunity to participate due to time constraints.My name is Neil Schwartzman. Beyond — as I noted yesterday — representing Return...
Confirmed Opt-In is not Dead After All
by Neil SchwartzmanFor some time now I have contended that Confirmed Opt-in, 'COI' is dead, or at the very least on life support. It certainly is not a major factor in the continued relation between sender and receiver; that relies far more heavily on the...
I bought/rented a list of Opt-in names, but now I’m being accused of spamming. Why? What should I do different?
If somebody offers to sell you a bulk list of 'opt-in' email addresses, you're almost certainly getting a spam list. What you're going to receive from them is a list of addresses belonging to people who have not agreed to receive messages, or a list...
Why does my government allow spam?
Governments are catching up with spam laws, but sadly many have not legislated this yet. Canada has no spam laws, even though the "Federal Anti-Spam Task Force" recommended this in 2004. Country specific laws can be found at Spamlaws.comThe United States has...
Why does my ESP/ISP allow spam?
Most ESPs and ISPs have policies in place that prevent their users from sending spam, however not all of these policies are correctly enforced. Many times spam activity continues because there are no complaints being sent to an ESPs or ISP, or these complaints are...
Is there any way to make them stop?
There are several initiatives in progress to help with this growing problem, these include; Email authentication and reputation services ISP filtering of inbound and outbound email, port 25 (mail transport service) blocking The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group...
