I received a great question about the Electronic Commerce Protection Act (Bill C-27) currently working it’s way through the Canadian Parliament. Q:What does this mean for US companies which have Canadians on their list? It looks like the ECPA (pronounced Eck-Pa) has a slightly more rigid permission rule than CAN SPAM (implied consent is not exactly opt out). So if I have Canadians on my file, and don’t have ZIP or Country, will I...

My good buddy Rick Buck sent this over yesterday and it was so funny I had to share (with permission of course). ‘Twas the month before Christmas, when all through the land,marketers were scheming to hit year-end plans. Their e-mails were designed in great detail and care,in hopes that all of their customers soon would be there. Mail the entire list. Mail them all!Mail away! Mail away! Mail away all!” The executives were nestled all...

I received this note today from the team behind the Karmasphere Project, a community based DIY Reputation service, stating that the service will be shutting it’s doors in a couple of weeks. Hello, As a registered user of Karmasphere Reputation Services, we wanted to let you know that we are discontinuing the service, effective November 16, 2009. If you are using the services through DNS, BQuery or email plugins, please make plans to...