UK’s worst spammer loses appeal
The Register has a story about Peter Francis-Macrae, 24-year-old, who was convicted on a variety of charges ranging from fraud and blackmail to making threats to kill and sentenced to six years imprisonment. He has failed in an appeal court bid to quash two of his convictions.
He made an estimated £1.6m […]

The right spelling of email is without hyphen…
Paul Beck and Jeanniey Mullen announced that the official spelling of the word email is email, without hyphen. Paul provided an overview of the research and survey efforts that come to a formal position.
Adoption of this spelling has already started to take place in style guides of many […]

Spamhaus ordered to Pay $11.7m for blacklisting
This is big for legitimate email marketer. British spam blocking firm Spamhaus was charged with blacklisting marketing firm e360insight’s e-mails to consumers by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illnois. Spamhaus was ordered to pay $11.7 million in damages to e360insight, Chicago, and its CEO, David […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charged Kodak Imaging Network for violating CAN-SPAM Act. Kodak sent a commercial e-mail message to more than two million recipients that failed to contain an opt-out mechanism failed to disclose in the e-mail message that consumers have the right to opt-out of receiving further mailings, and failed to include a […]

Probably one of the biggest issues surrounding small businesses and solopreneurs — especially those who use 1ShoppingCart.com autoresponder system — since last month is bulk mail delivery as a result of an alleged blacklisting by The Spamhaus Project. Some e-mail marketers who sent out legitimate mailings, including those I read regularly, ended up in the […]