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Home :: Email 04 May 2013 I don't think I'll be unblocking mail from .PW any time soon Email One of the managers at .PW sent me a note saying that (paraphrased) now that the world knows their customers are gushing spam, they're finally starting to set up some of the anti-abuse measures that they should have done in the first place. But then I got my first response to an abuse report: See more ... posted at: 20:13 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/pwnope.trackback 02 May 2013 Poor Palau Email Palau is a tiny country of about 20,000 people with excellent snorkeling in the South Pacific. Like every country, it has a two-letter country domain .PW. Back in 2004, Palau leased .PW to Encirca, who tried to brand it as Personal Web, with approximately no success. Late last year, DirectI took it over and rebranded it as Professional Web. They went through an ICANN-style sunrise and landrush process and apparently got tens of thousands of defensive registrations. About a month ago, they opened it up to everyone with very cheap $5 registrations, and the spam began. See more ... posted at: 22:12 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/palau.trackback 22 Apr 2013 Why I don't like LinkedIn, part XLXXVIII Email LinkedIn is probably the most successful social network other than Facebook. They've carefully positioned themselves as the network for professionals. I've been a LinkedIn member for a long time, and have 735 connections (all people I actually know at least a little.) Nonetheless, I am ever closer to closing my account and dumping the whole thing. Why? Because they are phenomenally annoying. Consider this message they just sent me: See more ... posted at: 22:14 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/lbjobs.trackback 01 Mar 2013 Leak of the week: dropbox Email A friend and I were corresponding about the many otherwise legitimate companies who leak addresses to spammers, such as the Economist and the IEEE. He was surprised to note that his Dropbox address was now getting spam, I looked at the logs and what do you know, starting this Tuesday I was too, I just hadn't noticed because it was all so spammy it got caught by content filters. Tsk, tsk. Looking at previous mail, I don't see any of it coming from an ESP, so it seems to have been an internal leak. Double tsk, tsk. posted at: 17:53 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/leak3.trackback 30 Jan 2013 The incredible leakyness of commercial mailers (cont'd) Email Last week I blogged about the way that lots of otherwise legitimate companies leak e-mail addresses to spammers. Here's a few more thoughts. See more ... posted at: 01:51 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://jl.ly/Email/moreleak.trackback

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