Journal of PlanetMike

It seems very odd to me to run a anti-spam service and advertise it via spam. And even odder still to not follow the very law that your site is supposed to help consumers with. (yes, I ended that sentence with a preposition.) Be careful of these kinds of services, opt-out through a third party […]

Wow, I only just got my first piece of political candidate spam for this election cycle. It only had 166 email addresses listed in the To: field. And I only received four copies of this garbage. I guess I know who to vote for now: the OTHER candidate!

It appears that at least one product is configured to not allow the word “spam” to be in the subject line of an email message. Nice, see CDT Policy Post 10.15: Spam Continues to Plague Industry and Users.

I recently sent an email referencing CDT and it’s Pennsylvania law suit, and in a bounced message I found a wonderful example of a bad regular expression to use in your blocking lists. Someone decided that any email message that has this pattern of letters in it should not be allowed to be delivered: pen?s. […]

Some loser at a non-profit organization (three-letters followed by dot org) decided to add one of my professional email addresses to their email list. This is called “spam.” They had an opt-out method included in the message. So I followed that process. And got an error message back from their mail server. so I fired […]

A new spamhaus: Promoaudit.com. They’ve hit my web site seven times in the last week. Also mentioned in the spam is a company called “FreeSlide.com.” FreeSlide’s web site redirects to a URL at sbase30.com. Other spam I’ve received referencing FreeSlide (going back to March 11, 2004) included references to e-ticket-marketing.com, dealbrick.com, b2c-mail.com, listmx.com, Emsemail1.com, ggoody.com, […]

What is a “SpamTrap?” A spamtrap is simply an email address that is not in active use by a person, and is instead used to collect spam. The usual way to do this is once someone leaves a company, to use their old email address. I do that at work (after I unsubscribe the address […]

I wonder if a spammer putting their physical address in a graphic is legal, according to CAN-SPAM. The losers at TimeSavers are putting their mailing address as a graphic image, instead of as text.

More garbage from the losers at LifeSavers direct, now called TimeSavers Direct. I love how they don’t believe that the CAN-SPAM law applies to them. Oh yeah, they are spammers, and spammers don’t have any decency in the first place, that’s why they steal. Why should we (or Congress) expect them to follow the rules? […]