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Home :: Email 15 Nov 2008 More spam from Postini Email A few months ago we had a most interesting colloquy when I posted with some amusement a piece of spam that Postini had sent me, suggesting that a company that claims to be in the spam filtering business should consider using its own product, and a former Postini employee expressed bafflement and outrage that anyone should expect Postini to bear any responsibility for mail sent through their servers. Well, they're back! See more ... posted at: 07:49 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Email/econospam.trackback 15 Oct 2008 Users don't like forwarded spam Email A message on Dave Farber's Interesting People list complained that Comcast was blocking mail forwarded by Dyndns, a popular provider of DNS and related services for small-scale users. ... Wholesale blocking of all mail intended for customers from a particular intermediate distributor, merely because they route it through an external service that adds value. In reponse, I opined: See more ... posted at: 05:06 :: permanent link to this entry :: 6 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Email/fwdspam.trackback 10 Oct 2008 Interview on the Jaynes Reversal Email Podcaster Speaking of Justice talked to me about the Virginia Supreme Court's reversal of the Jeremy Jaynes conviction. Much of it will be familiar if you've read my previous blog entries, but some of it's not so you can listen to it here. posted at: 08:24 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Email/vainterview.trackback 13 Sep 2008 Virginia court throws out spam law; one spammer gets away with it Email The 2004 criminal spam case against large-scale spammer Jeremy Jaynes, which I've covered in several previous blog entries, appears to have come to an ignominious end with the state supreme court throwing out the law under which he was convicted. The Virginia anti-spam law was one of the first in the country with criminal provisions, but it failed due to the way that First Amendment cases are treated differently from all other cases. See more ... posted at: 18:56 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Email/jaynesreverse.trackback 30 Jul 2008 Why we'll never replace SMTP Email An acquaintance asked whether there's been any progress in the oft-rumored project to come up with a more secure replacement for SMTP. Answer: no See more ... posted at: 05:49 :: permanent link to this entry :: 3 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com./Email/stillsmtp.trackback

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