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Home :: Email 11 Mar 2020 Political e-mail placement or, you're not special Email 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 ... posted at: 11:55 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/notspecial.html 07 Sep 2019 Fewer bad examples for mail Email 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 ... posted at: 05:56 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/exampnull.html 28 May 2019 What does it mean to Deploy DMARC? Email 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 ... posted at: 23:32 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/dmarcwhat.html 03 May 2018 Choosing Internationalized E-mail addresses Email Recently I've been working on EAI mail, looking at what software is available (Gmail and Outlook/Hotmail both handle it now) and what work remains to be done. A surprisingly tricky part is assigning EAI addresses to users. In traditional ASCII mail, the local part of the address, what goes before the @ sign, can be any printable ASCII characters. Although an address like %i()/;~f@examp1e.com is valid, and mail systems will handle it, users don't want addresses like that. A good address is one that is easy to remember, easy to tell someone over the phone, and easy to type. Mail systems all give senders some help when interpreting addresses. If an address is Bob@example, they'll accept bob@ or BOB@. If the address is joe.smith@, they'll accept Joe.Smith@ and often variations in punctuation like joesmith@ without the dots. The flip side of this is that you don't assign different addresses that are too similar. While it is techincally possible that BOB@ and bob@ could deliver to different mailboxes, nobody does that. Similarly, nobody makes joesmith@ and joe.smith@ different. (They may not both work, but if they do, they're the same mailbox.) The domain (the part of the address after the @ sign) has to follow the DNS rules, which don't allow any fuzzy matching other than ASCII upper and lower case. How does all this extend into EAI mail? See more ... posted at: 14:24 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/eaiaddr.html 21 Apr 2017 Craigslist gets a $40 million CAN-SPAM judgment Email Classified ad site craigslist is famously protective of its contents. While they are happy for search engines like Google to index the listings, they really, really do not like third parties to scrape and republish their content in other forms. In 2013 craigslist sued a company called 3taps which had created an API for craigslist data. They also sued real estate site Padmapper, which showed craigslist and other apartment listings on a map, something craigslist didn't do at the time. After extensive legal wrangling, 3taps eventually gave up and in 2015 paid craigslist $1 million and shut down. Craigslist donated the money to the EFF which was a little odd since the EFF had generally supported 3taps. One of 3taps' other customers was another real estate site Radpad, which kept showing craigslist listings after 3taps shut down. See more ... posted at: 23:37 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/Email/radpad.html

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