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Home 29 May 2008 Dot travel still isn't dead yet ICANN I've writen several blog entries about the continued downward swirling motion of Tralliance, the company that runs the registry for .TRAVEL. In this month's installment, as told in their quarterly 10-Q SEC filing, they flirt with bankruptcy but may well end up more stable than before. One of the more eye-catching paragraphs says: Based upon the Company's current financial condition, as discussed above, and without the infusion of additional capital, management does not believe that the Company will be able to fund its operations beyond the end of May 2008. See more ... posted at: 23:19 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/ICANN/travelstillnotdead.trackback 18 May 2008 CAN SPAM and Affiliate Mailer Opt-Out Email Many online businesses use affiliates to drum up business. The affiliate finds a lead somewhere, passes it to the business, and gets a commission if the lead turns into a sale. Web based affiliates are relatively uncontroversial, but affiliates who advertise by e-mail are a chronic problem due to their propensity to send spam, both spam as normally defined and as defined by CAN SPAM. Is it possible to do legitimate e-mail affiliate marketing? Maybe. See more ... posted at: 23:08 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/affwash.trackback 16 May 2008 Wow, Sanford Wallace Owes a Lot of Money Email Last September MySpace sued ur-spammers Sanford "Spamford" Wallace and Walt "Pickle Jar" Rines for egregious violations of CAN SPAM. After some early skirmishes involving an expert for Wallace so unqualified that the judge threw out his testimony, Wallace and Rines stopped responding, so as was widely reported, earlier this week the court granted a default judgement. Since they sent a lot of spam, the statutory damages came to an enormous $235 million. Even for Spamford, that's a lot of money. See more ... posted at: 01:58 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/spamford2.trackback 08 May 2008 Dismaying ruling in ASIS vs. Azoogle Email ASIS is a small ISP in northern California. Azoogle is an online lead broker with a history of extremely poor e-mail practices, although they have cleaned up their act enough in recent years to get off the Spamhaus blacklists. ASIS sued Azoogle under CAN SPAM, Azoogle moved for summary judgement, which was granted. Although I can't tell whether Azoogle was responsible for the specific spam in the suit, the reasoning the judge used to throw out the suit is just plain wrong, and the suit should have been allowed to continue. See more ... posted at: 22:32 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/asisazoogle.trackback 03 May 2008 Jeremy Jaynes gets one more chance Email In 2004 Jaynes became the country's first convicted spam felon under the Virginia anti-spam law. He's been appealing his conviction ever since, most recently losing an appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court by a 4-3 decision in February. As I discussed in more detail at the time the key questions were a) whether the Virginia law had First Amendment problems and b) whether Jaynes had standing to challenge it. The court answered No to b), thereby avoiding the need to answer a), the dissent answered Yes to both. See more ... posted at: 23:49 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/jaynesrehear.trackback Happy Birthday Spam on the BBC World Service Email I was interviewed this afternoon on the BBC World Service newshour program, about the 30th anniversary of the first spam. To listen in, visit the program's web site. Click the "Listen again" link and, although it was recorded and broadcast on Saturday the 3rd, it is the Sunday 2000 GMT link. The interview is with Lyse Doucette and starts about at about 13:45 into the hour long program. posted at: 18:20 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/spam30.trackback

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