How To Screw Up Your Email Delivery, confuse your subscribers and get stuck in spam filters in one quick email or less
I do a lot of local speaking here in Phoenix where we have decided to settle for now.
So I get a lot of email from the MeetUp groups I participate in. But today [...]
Now that Conficker is delivering it’s payload of spam, spam filters have been cranked up to their highest notch and email delivery is at an all time low, at least for me
After consulting my top contacts in the world of Internet security, spam filtering and network spam filtering appliances I can say without a doubt [...]
April 14, 2009 – 11:03 am
The Gmail new spam filter is really Google Friend Connect, disguised as a friends list the levels of permission now available in Gmail is a very effective spam filter.
This is an excerpt from my social marketing members only site. This is the kind of thinking and leading edge use of GFC you will find there.
This [...]
February 25, 2009 – 9:00 am
AWeber links are breaking in Gmail due to an unknown line break
The reason I caught this was one of my subscribers replied to my email on an unrealted issue after I sent an email to my Google Friend Connect list with a new update on what Google is really doing.
UPDATE!
Just got off the phone with [...]
December 3, 2008 – 2:26 am
Facebook listed as a phishing site. Why?
The following domain is now listed as a phishing site by Google chrome and Firefox. http://fbcdn.net
UPDATE:Just in, TechCrunch just reported that Safari is now listing Facebook as a suspicious site too. You can read their article in the trackback in comments where they linked to this artilce. (Cheers! [...]
October 29, 2008 – 10:22 am
Microsoft Anti Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer 7 Can Display False Positive Warnings. Here is how you can tell if you are being blocked by a Internet Explorer Anti Phishing False Positive Warning
In a further effort to help legitimate businesses, here is how you can tell you have a Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or 8 [...]
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October 27, 2008 – 7:05 pm
Due to Trend Micro blocking my site, my PalPal redirect forms, my emails in Trend Micro spam filters and my URLs in emails and web traffic requests I can now advise you on how not to make this mistake. Don’t let this happen to you.
Trend Micro will block your site in the browser, block your [...]
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Tagged anti virus, blacklist, blocking, blocklist, dangerous, internet security, paypal, rbl, redirect, trend micro, undesirable, url, urls, warning
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October 27, 2008 – 5:57 am
DKIM authentication now supported by Lyris HQ online marketing suite, one step closer to wide adoption
Lyris UK www.lyris.co.uk , today announced the availability of DomainKeys Identified Mail DKIM technology within the Lyris HQ online marketing suite. By making DKIM authentication more widely accessible to organizations of any size, Lyris is helping marketers build and sustain [...]
October 6, 2008 – 9:04 am
I was just in Gmail and went to click the delete button on one of my own emails that arrives there as a test.
Since the delete button is only a quarter inch from the spam button, I, in a hurry I clicked the wrong one. I had just marked my own message as spam.
I [...]
September 13, 2008 – 6:52 pm
The court unanimously agreed with Jeremy Jaynes’ argument that the law violates free-speech and overturns spammer conviction, setting the stage for a Supreme Court spam laws showdown!
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Supreme Court declared the state’s anti-spam law unconstitutional Friday and reversed the conviction of a man once considered one of the world’s most [...]