New VP at Goodmail
Charles Stiles, who managed the postmaster team at AOL and was laid off 2 weeks ago, is the new VP of Worldwide Business Development at Goodmail.
Ken Magill mentioned the possibility of Charles moving to Goodmail yesterday.
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419 … over live chat?
- laura
- Sep 21, 2007
MailChimp’s customer service people were contacted by what appears to be a King selling monkeys.
I want to get permission part II up today, but this was just so funny I had to share.
Tools for monitoring email
- laura
- Oct 9, 2007
A number of groups provide tools for monitoring email performance.
Some of these tools are provided by ISPs, like Hotmail and AOL have postmaster webpages. Hotmail also provides things like SNDS so you can monitor what Hotmail is seeing about your network.
Al has a new blacklist stats center over at DNSBL.com. Of interest is the accuracy of some of the widely used lists like Spamhaus, Spamcop, and PSBL. Other lists like FiveTen were wildly inaccurate. In fact, Al has shown that blocking mail from any IP with a 7 in it is more accurate (more spam hits, less non-spam hits) than FiveTen.
ReturnPath provides free reputation lookup and monitoring based on the data they acquire.
MAAWG: Sender Best Practices
- laura
- Oct 8, 2007
The MAAWG Sender Subcommittee has published a Sender Best Current Practices document.
This document details what the current best practices in the sending industry are. Summarized the document says: