Found this interesting book on the net. I will order it as it looks very interesting. Here is the books description on Oreilly “The mounting onslaught of email pitches for porn, pills, and penis enlargement has some techno-pundits declaring that spam is on the verge of destroying the Internet. In Spam Kings, author and veteran…

It seems that ISP’s in the continuing war against SPAM are now using excessive bounce rates to identify spammers which has a negative impact on ethical email marketers. Excessive bounce rates are normally a sign of spammers with their unlimited capacity to generate email addresses which most are invalid thus generating large bounce rates. Because…

Yesh! Another news item on the increasing influx of spam in mail boxes. This is of course a huge concern to email marketers trying to do good by following every email standard and protocol on the planet. The cost of safelist accreditation services and other third party reputation services for email marketers is massive to…

Have you noticed an increase in the amount of image based spam you receiving? I bet you have run up your ISP and demanded that they fix the problem pronto. Well it really is not that simple anymore. You see spammers are getting real smart these days and buying very advanced software from underground software…

Fighting email spam is a continuous war and New Zealand Internet Service Providers (ISP’s) are stepping up the fight with new spam-fighting systems. TelstraClear recently announced it had spent $3.5 million on spam filtering technology. Earlier in the month (November) ihug customers were demanding to know why they were having problems with their email service….

This will interest you all. A very interesting study has been completed and the results are amazing! The Epsilon Interactive report stated that 69% of email users know how to activate suppressed images, and 57% at least sometimes activate images in promotional messages from senders they buy from or have accounts with, or from senders…

Many of you might already know the reason why spammers are now using images for their messages but just in case you don’t have a read of this article. Click here

“The United States and China remained atop the list of countries spewing spam for the third quarter, UK-based security vendor Sophos said Monday, and the former had the dubious honour of extending its lead in the battle for spam share. According to Sophos, servers in the US sent 21.6 percent of the world’s spam during…

Finally! The Aussie government gets one of the top 200 spammers! I hope they keep on hitting him until he disappears of the face of this planet. Saturday October 28, 2006 PERTH – A Perth-based company has been fined A$5.5 million ($6.5 million) for sending millions of unsolicited emails, with a judge labelling the spam…