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02 Jun 2008
A guy I know went away on a trip for a month and a half.
When he got back, his inbox had 14,000 messages waiting for him,
real ones, since his mail system has pretty good spam
filtering.
How can anyone deal with that much mail?
More importantly, if there are tools to sort, filter, combine,
and so forth to get the mail under control, how can people who
aren't technoweenies like me manage the tools?
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18 May 2008
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.
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16 May 2008
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.
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08 May 2008
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.
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03 May 2008
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.
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