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Jun
7
Filtering Mail the Old-Fashioned Way
Before graphical email programs were common — before web browsers were common, if you can imagine that — the average internet user actually had more control over their email environment than most do now. That level of control is only now beginning to reappear, with smart automated filters and so forth — but we would do well to learn from history.
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Jun
2
Keep Calm and Carry On. “Gmail” Was Not Hacked…
GM/Chief Security Officer
…and neither was Google…at least not this time. If you read some of the mainstream media, your ears might have perked up when you saw some of the headlines that Gmail was hacked. One of the original front page headlines …
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May
24
Reporting Spam on Mobile Devices
Return Path’s new study reveals that the massive increase in email readership on mobile devices corresponds with a decrease in use of webmail, particularly on weekends. If your focus is either spam detection or list management, that’s bad news.
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May
19
What Ever Happened to ADSP?
Many mailbox providers are concerned about liability and expectations: they know they’ll be blamed by their users and even by senders when a senders’ ADSP policy leads to a legitimate (but unsigned) message being discarded. They’re also concerned that they’ll be expected to provide technical support for every mail operator who wants to use ADSP. Similarly, those same mail operators — whether senders of bulk marketing email, enterprise Exchange administrators, or mailbox providers themselves — are worried that there may be mail streams that aren’t applying DKIM correctly, or aren’t authenticating at all.
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May
12
Major Telecommunications Providers Cooperate to Stop Spam in Europe
Business Development Manager
Using the Abuse Reporting Format (ARF) and Return Path’s feedback report processing technology, ETIS members help each other find the spammers lurking within each others’ networks — and their customers’ networks, and their customers’ networks.
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May
3
33 Years of Spam? No, Not Really.
Scattered around the Internet today (and every May) you’ll find various articles heralding the 33rd anniversary of spam, counting the years from Gary Thuerk’s message. They’ll remark that spam has been with us a long time, maybe quote a few anti-spam vendor statistics, and say spam isn’t going anywhere. But that’s just bad research.
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May
2
Death of bin Laden to Spawn New Wave of Cyber Activity
GM/Chief Security Officer
We’ve seen it all too often already. Whenever a major news story breaks, spammers and other cybercriminals mobilize quickly, assembling their own forces to create realistic looking news stories and lures to videos meant to entice anyone and everyone who …
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Apr
28
Microsoft tests DKIM and ADSP
An engineer from Microsoft recently shared some of the thinking behind Hotmail’s adoption of DKIM and ADSP.
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Apr
26
Understanding the “Precedence:” Header
Though never formally standardized, the Precedence: header has been around since the earliest days of internet email. Google’s use of the Precedence: header for labeling is a new idea, and (probably) unique.
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Apr
25
The Weekly HELO — April 25, 2011
This week: gamblers fold, leaders socialize, Asia runs dry, and Viagra jokes just aren’t funny anymore.
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