CAUCE North America Announces Renewed Corporate Sponsorship By Return Path Inc
CAUCE North America Inc.--The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (http://CAUCE.org)--Today announced at The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group meeting (MAAWG) that it has received additional financial support from Return Path Inc.
Tuesday, June 2. 2009
The recipient view of marketing email
CAUCE Treasurer-Secretary Dennis Dayman posted this gem over at deliverability.com, essentially, his wife, a civilian as it were, has some things to say about marketing email.
Sunday, December 7. 2008
The (Possible) Future of International Spam Laws
The (Possible) Future of International Spam Laws By J.D. Falk
After more than a decade of fits and starts, fear and doubt, lies and lobbying, legislative attention towards spam now seems to arrive in regular waves. Our friend Dennis Dayman reports on deliverability.com that a new law has taken effect in Israel, requiring (in short) opt-in -- and so according to the International Herald Tribune, Israeli marketers were rushing to re-confirm questionable subscriptions before the deadline this past Monday. In Canada, Internet law expert Michael Geist lambasted his government for continuing to fail to pass any anti-spam legislation, four years after he and the National Task Force on Spam -- which also included our own Neil Schwartzman -- strongly urged them to take immediate action. And this week at the Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad, I've heard representatives from more than a dozen governments from all over the world discussing not whether "cyber crime" legislation is necessary, but rather how it should be formulated to fit their local legal standards and culture.
McColo and the Difficulty of Fighting Spam
CAUCE's own Ray Everett-Church writes:
It may be a truism that “little things mean a lot,” but in the world of spam, flipping a single switch can have huge consequences that span the globe.
We saw that concept reinforced this past week when McColo Corp., an Internet hosting firm based in San Jose, Calif., had its Internet connection shut off by its upstream connectivity providers on suspicion that McColo was serving as a command and control center for various spamming “bot net” operations as well as a base of operations for various other unsavory activities.
Of course everyone, even McColo, is innocent until proven guilty. But in the days following the disconnection, global spam volumes have reportedly dropped by nearly two-thirds. I suppose it could be a coincidence...
Read the rest here.
Monday, October 6. 2008
It may be a truism that “little things mean a lot,” but in the world of spam, flipping a single switch can have huge consequences that span the globe.
We saw that concept reinforced this past week when McColo Corp., an Internet hosting firm based in San Jose, Calif., had its Internet connection shut off by its upstream connectivity providers on suspicion that McColo was serving as a command and control center for various spamming “bot net” operations as well as a base of operations for various other unsavory activities.
Of course everyone, even McColo, is innocent until proven guilty. But in the days following the disconnection, global spam volumes have reportedly dropped by nearly two-thirds. I suppose it could be a coincidence...
Read the rest here.
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The Root of All Email
This week, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) published a number of what they call "RFCs," which originally meant "Requests for Comment" -- the standards documents which specify the technical underpinnings of the internet. Two of these, numbered 5321 and 5322, replace earlier documents defining the very core of internet email. On the surface, each of these seem surprisingly simple; one aims "...to transfer mail reliably and efficiently," while the other defines itself as "...a definition of what message content format is to be passed between systems." Yet without general industry-wide acceptance of (and compliance with) these standards, internet email simply would not exist.
This week also marks ten years since the death of Jon Postel, who arguably had more influence over the creation of the internet than any other single person. One of Jon's most enduring recommendations is to "be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receive," which Vint Cerf (who had only slightly less influence over the early internet), described as "...a reminder that in a multi-stakeholder world, accommodation and understanding can go a long way towards reaching consensus or, failing that, at least toleration of choices that might not be at the top of everyone's list."
This philosophy is the root of all email, from the earliest standards discussions to the latest theories of authentication, reputation, and deliverability.
This week also marks ten years since the death of Jon Postel, who arguably had more influence over the creation of the internet than any other single person. One of Jon's most enduring recommendations is to "be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receive," which Vint Cerf (who had only slightly less influence over the early internet), described as "...a reminder that in a multi-stakeholder world, accommodation and understanding can go a long way towards reaching consensus or, failing that, at least toleration of choices that might not be at the top of everyone's list."
This philosophy is the root of all email, from the earliest standards discussions to the latest theories of authentication, reputation, and deliverability.
