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One area significantly affected is the public availability of WHOIS data, a critical resource in the domain name system. WHOIS traditionally provided detailed contact information for domain registrants, but privacy measures have redacted much of this data in recent years. </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/7486" class="blue">Tobias Sattler</a></li> <li>Comments: 4</li> <li>Views: 10,027</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20240123-do-you-need-a-license-to-look-for-spam">Do You Need a License to Look for Spam?</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Jan 23, 2024 11:19 AM PST </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_1015.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> Jay Fink had an interesting little business. If you lived in California, you could give him access to your email account; he'd look through the spam folder for spam that appeared to violate the state anti-spam law and give you a spreadsheet and a file of PDFs. You could then sue the spammers, and if you won, you'd give Fink part of the money as his fee. </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/1015" class="blue">John Levine</a></li> <li>Comments: 3</li> <li>Views: 20,334</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20230913-the-standards-paywalls-fall-everyone-benefits">The Standards Paywalls Fall: Everyone Benefits</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Sep 13, 2023 5:37 PM PDT </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_6809.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> Yesterday -- in a unanimous decision of the US Federal Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit (CADC) in ASTM v. Public.Resource.Org --- some of the worst standards paywalls came tumbling down. The court definitively determined that where governmental authorities incorporate private organisation technical standards into law by reference, non-commercial dissemination of those standards "constitutes fair use and cannot support liability for copyright infringement." </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/6809" class="blue">Anthony Rutkowski</a></li> <li>Comments: 3</li> <li>Views: 22,894</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20230324-spam-filtering-and-social-media-moderation-are-the-same-thing">Spam Filtering and Social Media Moderation Are the Same Thing</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Mar 24, 2023 10:06 AM PDT </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_1015.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> 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 University of Pennsylvania, 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. </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/1015" class="blue">John Levine</a></li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 18,719</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20220920-hijacked-ip-addresses">Hijacked IP Addresses</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Sep 20, 2022 10:38 AM PDT </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_9278.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> From time to time, a party can get out of control. Raucous celebration can become careless, even destructive. Combine a critical number of young people, a certain amount of beer and lots of music and damage often happens. Partygoers leave a mess behind them. The same thing happens to some IP addresses. Malicious actors use IP addresses properly registered to someone else. </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/9278" class="blue">Peter Tobey</a></li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 21,046</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20220427-minding-your-ip-address-reputation">Minding Your IP Address Reputation</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Apr 27, 2022 9:27 AM PDT </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_8677.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> Network operators rely on guidance from IP address experts because not all IP addresses used on the Internet are the same. The "reputation" of email senders is especially important because some are malicious users of the system. But identifying "senders" based on their email addresses or the individual IP address of a user presents issues that are unnecessarily complex. </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/8677" class="blue">Lee Howard</a></li> <li>Comments: 1</li> <li>Views: 25,559</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20211119-remembering-jd-falk-10-years-later">JD Falk – a Decade Afterwards</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Nov 20, 2021 6:51 AM PST </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_617.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> I can still hear it. ‘Hee hee’. That’s good. We all have unique laughs, but few are distinctive. Fewer yet belly the true nature of the human being issuing them. British insult comedian Jimmy Carr has one such laugh, a tri-tone ‘dah dah DUH,’ rising on the third expulsion. It has a bell-like quality, ringing, embodying the deft touch that Don Rickles had of insulting while loving, something Carr has mastered. It lets you know that despite him having just said something shocking and horrid, he is laughing with, never at, reassuring the target, ‘all is well.’ </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/617" class="blue">Neil Schwartzman</a></li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 30,713</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20200818-received-a-questionable-email-from-nabp-it-may-be-illegal-spoofing">Received a Questionable Email From NABP? It May Be Illegal Spoofing</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Aug 18, 2020 5:43 PM PDT </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_8637.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> Has your organization recently received an email claiming to be from NABP's Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program (IDOI)? If so, it is possible that someone is trying to trick you. The NABP IDOI team's email account has recently been illegally "spoofed" by unaffiliated persons or organizations. Email spoofing involves the forgery of an email header so that the email appears to have originated from someone other than the actual source. </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/8637" class="blue">Justin Macy</a></li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 25,102</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20200430-measuring-abuse-how-much-covid-related-abuse-is-there">Measuring Abuse: How Much COVID-Related Abuse Is There, Really?</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Apr 30, 2020 1:52 PM PDT </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_617.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> Like measuring COVID's impact, so too measuring the impact of COVID-related abuse on the Internet is difficult, there are those that would foolishly dismiss the danger entirely, others over-state the problem, perhaps to prompt sales of tools and services. The amount and type of abuse varies from network to network, and to declare everything is fine based on one world-view you believe to be ubiquitous, or that the sky is falling based upon another, extrapolated to 'everybody else' is simply poor analysis. </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/617" class="blue">Neil Schwartzman</a></li> <li>Comments: 1</li> <li>Views: 30,609</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20200311-political-email-placement-or-you-are-not-special">Political Email Placement or, You’re Not Special</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Mar 11, 2020 9:02 PM PDT </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_1015.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> 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. This is an example of the fallacy We're so nice that the rules don't apply to us, which is far too common among non-profit and political mailers. </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/1015" class="blue">John Levine</a></li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 15,532</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20191003_rip_don_blumenthal">RIP Don Blumenthal</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Oct 03, 2019 8:01 PM PDT </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_617.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> It is with a heavy heart that we note the passing of a dear friend, colleague and member of the CAUCE board of directors, Don Blumenthal, on September 28, 2019, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was 67. Don was an anti-spammer for as long a there was an anti-spam community: he helped design, deploy and maintain the famous 'Spam Fridge,' the repository of junk email maintained by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/617" class="blue">Neil Schwartzman</a></li> <li>Comments: 2</li> <li>Views: 18,364</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20190923_spam_is_never_timely_nor_relevant">Spam Is Never Timely Nor Relevant</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Sep 23, 2019 10:08 PM PDT </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_4297.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> One of the ongoing recommendations to improve deliverability is to send email that is timely and relevant to the recipient. The idea being that if you send mail a recipient wants, they're more likely to interact with it in a way that signals to the mailbox provider that the message is wanted. The baseline for that, at least whenever I've talked about timely and relevant, is that the recipient asked for mail from you in the first place. </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/4297" class="blue">Laura Atkins</a></li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 14,139</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20190815_call_spoofing_congress_calls_on_fcc_russia_and_china_answer">Call Spoofing: Congress Calls on FCC, Russia and China Answer</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Aug 15, 2019 8:10 PM PDT </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_6809.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> It is both amusing and dismaying. Last year, Congress passed Ray Baum's Act telling the FCC to do something about those pesky incoming foreign SPAM calls and texts with the fake callerIDs. The FCC a couple of weeks ago responded with a chest thumping Report and Order claiming it has "extraterritorial jurisdiction" that is does not have, and promising it will do something. Don't hold your breath on that one. </p> <div class="postInfo pipedLinks"> <ul> <li>By <a href="https://circleid.com/members/6809" class="blue">Anthony Rutkowski</a></li> <li>Comments: 0</li> <li>Views: 13,970</li> </ul> </div> <h3><a href="/posts/20190429_spamtraps_are_overblown_by_senders">Spamtraps Are Overblown… by Senders</a></h3> <div class="byLine"> Apr 29, 2019 5:58 PM PDT </div> <p> <img src="/images/member_photos/photo_4297.jpg" border="0" width="80" alt="" /> One of the fascinating parts of my job is seeing how different groups in email have radically disparate points of view. A current example is how much value senders put on spamtraps compared to ISPs and filtering companies. I understand why this is. 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