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22 Mar 2023
CDA Section 230 has been called ``The 26
Words that Created the Internet''.
While it is obvious how Sec 230 protects the World Wide Web, it is equally
important for e-mail.
A recent Pennsylvania court case emphasizes this point.
Dr. Thomas, a professor at the Univeristy of Pennysylvania forwarded an article about another
professor Dr. Monge to an online e-mail discussion list.
Dr. Monge claimed the article was
defamatory and sued Dr Thomas, the university, and many others.
But since neither Dr Thomas, nor the university were the author of the article,
under Sec 230 they were quickly dismissed from the case.
This is good news for anyone who (like me) runs mailing lists for other people.
If we were legally responsible for everything anyone said on a list, the number
of lists would be a whole lot smaller.
But Sec 230 doesn't just protect mailing lists. It also protects spam filtering,
and on the modern Internet, mail without filtering would be unusable.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/sec230spam.html
14 Oct 2020
I get a lot of mail from political campaigns. I expect a lot of us do.
In my case, each campaign gets a separate e-mail address so I can track how much they pass the addresses around.
(Nothing surprising, local passes them to national for the same party, stuff like that.)
While I was supposed to be doing something else, I wrote some scripts to track the mail, per campaign.
You can see the results, updated daily, at https://www.taugh.com/polispam.php.
If it looks like one day the Republican presidential campaign sent me 15 separate messages, yup, they did.
It's not entirely clear what their strategy is because they keep telling me that I am one of their TOP 100 SUPPORTERS
even though I've never sent them a dime.
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/polispam.html
11 Mar 2020
A recent piece in The Markup called
Swinging the Vote?
attempts to figure out how Google decides where to deliver political e-mail.
They were startled to discover that only a small fraction of it was delivered
into the main inbox, and a fair amount was classed as spam.
They shouldn't have been.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/notspecial.html
07 Sep 2019
The DNS has always had a few names for use as examples in documentation,
domains example.com, example.net, example.org,
and example.edu.
In 1999 RFC 2606 formally reserved the first three.
There's nothing technically special about these names,
which have normal WHOIS and DNS entries, managed by IANA.
Until recently, that meant that even though none of them handle
any e-mail, mail sent to them by mistake worked badly.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/exampnull.html
28 May 2019
The IETF's DMARC working group
is thinking about a maintenance update to the DMARC spec, fixing bits that are unclear and
perhaps changing it where what mail servers do doesn't exactly agree with what it says.
Someone noted that a lot of mailers claim to have ``deployed DMARC'', and it's not at
at all clear what that really means.
See more ...
Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/dmarcwhat.html
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