Symantec’s 12 Days of Christmas Spam
Just in time for the holidays – some very common spam items put to song. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReUs8YTVTKg] YouTube Link
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Defining Spam – four ways
Mickey, ran this article today on the definitions of spam (as used by various anti-spammers), prompted by an ongoing discussion around the quality of several…
Read articleWas that an opt-in or out?
Cam Beck, of Marketing Profs, introduces us to some tricky language with the Bank of America Newsletter opt-in (opt-out?) process. In one selection the box…
Read articleExperimental Authentication Survey #2
Back in August we conducted a quick and Experimental Authentication Survey of the EmailKarma inbox, what we found was that 50% of messages received in…
Read articleMonitoring Your Reputation
Many questions are currently being asked about monitoring your email reputation and how to go about this. Here is a short list of way you…
Read articleQ&A With EmailKarma
Hello EmailKarma, I was wondering if I could ask you a question about SpamAssasin. They have this test in their default settings:2.5 MISSING_HB_SEP Missing blank…
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A quick and experimental survey of the solicited messages in the EmailKarma inbox shows that ~50% of messages received in the month of August are…
Read articleIs Yahoo! Greylisting?
Recently on the Email Marketers Club there have been discussions surrounding Yahoo! and the possibility of Greylisting being used as an anti-spam feature on their…
Read articleWarning: New Storm Virus (e-card) messages
Please be aware of a new versions of the “Storm Virus” (e-card) messages that are currently circulating through email. For more information on the storm…
Read articleGmail explains why you should report spam?
Gmail’s official blog reciently posted a “Thanks for all the spam reports” to users for using the Report spam, and not Spam buttons. Here are…
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