How do spammers get my email address?
There are many ways in which spammers can get your email address. (no order) From harvesting posts to UseNet, webpages, blogs, chat rooms or other easily accessed forms From mailing lists, contest pages or free offer sites Compromised websites, phishing domains or...
How do you define “spam”?
The definition of "spam" is a tricky issue. The Wikipedia defines spam as "e-mail that is both unsolicited by the recipient and sent in substantively identical form to many recipients." Others believe "bulkiness" is irrelevant, it's...
How do you pronounce ‘CAUCE’?
It rhymes with "sauce". The first "C" is hard, and is spoken like the "K" in "Kangaroo"; the second "C" is soft, and is spoken like the "S" in "Stop Spam".
Anti-spyware Coalition Best Common Practices document open for public commentary
N.B. CAUCE Canada and CAUCE participated in the development of these documents.Best Practices Suggestions DocumentBuilding upon the Definitions and Risk Model documents, the Best Practices document aims to expand past defining what behaviors and consent factors will...
A couple of articles of note
by Neil SchwartzmanI recently published a couple of personal and business blog entries that may be of interest to the CAUCE community: Trench Warfare in the Age of The Laser-guided Missile - a clarion call to de-silo and take the offensive and How the Sender Community...
Article on privacy legislation shortfalls in Canada
I encourage people to take a look at the following article by fellow Federal Task Force on Spam member Michael Geist: Privacy breaches expose flaws in law January 22, 2007 MICHAEL GEIST http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/173418 -or-...
CAUCE Canada’s letter of support for the MAAWG Senders’ BCP
In reply to a request for support coming from the co-chairs of the Messaging Anti-abuse Working Group's Senders Subcommittee for their draft Best Practices document, CAUCE Canada issued the following statement:To whom it may concern, Having reviewed the document...
CAUCE (US) and CAUCE Canada positions on WHOIS data
The following message was sent in response to ICANN's solicitation of public commentary regarding the concept of obfuscating WHOIS data: CAUCE, the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail and CAUCE Canada are the leading North American grassroots anti-spam...
Letter to the Minister of Industry The Right Honourable Maxime Bernier
Dear Minister Bernier, As you are doubtless aware, representatives from industry, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), consumer groups and government and law enforcement gathered together from May 2004-2005 in a group known as the Federal Task Force on Spam. We are two...
CAUCE Joins the Anti-Spyware Coalition
CAUCE recently joined the Anti-Spyware Coalition.The ASC is a group of anti-spyware software companies, academics, and consumer groups such as CAUCE. It seeks to bring together a diverse array of perspective on the problem of controlling spyware and other potentially...
Kodak gets wrist slapped for spamming
Kodak settled a CAN SPAM suit with the FTC. Their Ofoto unit, which lets people upload digital photos and buy prints, sent two million commercial messages that didn't comply with the very mild requirements of CAN SPAM. In particular, they didn't include a...
Revenge spam is illegal in the UK
Reuters reports that a UK appeals court ruled that an English 18-year old who sent five million spams to a company who had fired him had indeed broken the law. The judge said that "while a computer user might consent to being sent some e-mails, that consent did...
