The new layout for EmailKarma.net is finally here – Please let us know what you think.  This is part of the continued update process for the site – new features are still in planning and development. Hopefully I got everything working again…   Please let me know if anything is broken or not working correctly – email Contact [at]...

Well last week things were kind of quite here, mainly because I was away in Sunny Florida attending the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) Conferance.   Due to posting bans on the discussions around MAAWG I can’t discuss the event, but I can tell you is that if your an ISP or and ESP and your not members your missing out on a number of things, including;  A great line up of speakers, topics and working sessions Networking...

Hello from MAAWG! Stay tuned for my wrap up early next week. This is new to me… I got this in a spam message yesterday, and if there were ever a list of how NOT to do email marketing published, this would be right at the top of the list. “You are receiving this email because you or someone you know (or a virus) has submitted it to us. You may have been included by mistake. Please accept our apology. To be removed immediately...

In an article by Directmag.com, by the last count in February of 2008, the world population was at 6.684 billion people. It was estimated that 1.463 billion people had access to the internet. Of that, 29% of internet users have bought from spam. Now, calculating this, the total would be 424 million users, who would potentially buy things from spam. Now considering in this article, it was stated that average user paid between $5.00 USD...

Lately I’ve been putting links in my delicious feed (available via RSS or email only – Subscribe on the right sidebar) to a number of sites that have written and commented on the recient court rulings where the Virginia Supreme Court declared the state’s anti-spam law unconstitutional. By doing so they automatically reversed the conviction of a man once considered one of the world’s most prolific spammers. Va. Court...