No More Free Outlook Connection for Hotmail – Spammers to Blame
Microsoft has announced that it will no longer be offering for free its service which allows users to connect to their Hotmail and MSN accounts using Outlook and Outlook Express. Citing exploitation by spammers, Microsoft will begin charging those who want to use the WebDAV technology to connect using Outlook…
FCC to Publish List of Wireless Domains to Which You May Not Send Commercial Email
Here’s a great idea! Let’s make a law which says that you can’t send commercial email to domains which have wireless messaging devices on the other end. So you can’t send commercial email to the email address of a celphone or pager or the likes. So far so good –…
Microsoft Sues Spammer’s Web Hosting Provider
Microsoft has taken the fight against spam to the next level, by suing not the spammer, but the web hosting service which provides services to the spammers.
AOL Offers Security Key, Adds Double Layer Log-in Authentication for Users
Two-factor security key being offered by AOL is just the thing to help thwart phishers and identity theft.
Spam’s Unsubscribe Link Downloads Nasty Things to PC
Now, this just isn’t nice. Still, you have to give the spammers points for cleverness. MessageGate has determined that spam featuring the domain xcelent.biz has gone beyond the usual rudeness of using a click on an unsubscribe link to confirm a warm body on the other side of the email…
Ant Spam Firm Usese Superiod Human Intelligence
We thought that, with all of the dire news around us today, we would share a chuckle with you. You see, according to an article in Security Pipeline, Solinus, the makers of MailFoundry, are making an offer that users of Spam Assassin-based products can turn in their product and receive…
Breaking News: California Has A New Anti-Spam Law
On Friday, with little fanfare, and even less press coverage, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senator Kevin Murray’s SB 1457 into law. A shadow of its former self, SB 1457 still provides spam recipients with something which they haven’t had for some time: a private right of action. SB 1457…
DMA to FTC: Here’s how to define “commercial email” – Everything, Except Anything Our People Send
The Federal Trade Commission is accepting (indeed soliciting) comments from the public regarding certain aspects of CAN-SPAM, including the much discussed “primary purpose” definition. The gist of this aspect of the law is that if the primary purpose of an email is commercial, then it is governed by CAN-SPAM. If…
Own an Anti-Spam Software Company? Commtouch May Own Your *ss.
Commtouch, makers of enterprise and ISP level anti-spam solutions, announced this week that it has acquired a patent which describes “a system that monitors live e-mail, identifies certain characteristics of the e-mail message that appear in more than one e-mail, and blocks other e-mails with the same pattern”. Holy Infringement,…
FTC to Congress Lawrence Lessig Was Right
A lot of people scoffed at Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig when he announced that he would wager his job against the efficacy of a bounty system to track down spammers, offering that if it didn’t work, he’s resign his position at Stanford. However, in a new report by…
Guy Kawasaki on the Art of Email
Guy Kawasaki’s newest book, “The Art of the Start: The Time-tested, Battle-hardened Guide For Anyone Starting Anything” was just released today, and it’s hot – even hotter than the flame which burns bright on its cover. While it’s a wonderful book for all sorts of reasons, and highly recommended reading…
Dmail: Alternative to Email Promises to End Spam
Dear Gentle Readers, Remember before everybody had email, and people logged in to private bulletin board systems (“BBS”)? If you long for the days when internal correspondence at the office was hand-delivered in those yellow 8×11 envelopes with 172 names scratched out and yours written in at the bottom like…
News Flash: SpamCop and King of Spam Settle Lawsuit
Aunty has heard from a little birdie that the lawsuit filed by Spam King Scott Richter against anti-spam outfit SpamCop has been settled. As Aunty's gentle readers may know, Richter's request for an injunction was denied back in June, with the Court ruling that SpamCop was protected under the Communications…
For Sale: Your Email Address. Serious offers only. Inquire at Advocacy, Inc.
Political spam has long been considered to be completely immune from any anti-spam law. This is due to the long-cherished constitutional prohibition against the regulation of political speech. If you are a registered voter and haven’t yet received political spam, fear not, you will soon enough. Even sooner, if Advocacy,…
