RR FBL: it's officially dead
The Roadrunner Postmaster page says the FBL is deactivated.
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Things you need to read
- laura
- Jan 25, 2016
The email solicitation that made me vow to never work with this company again. When sending unsolicited email, you never know how the recipient is going to respond. Writing a public blog post calling you out can happen.
The 2016 Sparkies. Sparkpost is looking for nominations for their email marketing awards. Win a trip to Insight 2016!
5 CAN SPAM myths. Send Grid’s General Counsel speaks about CAN SPAM myths. Personally, asking for an email to unsubscribe is annoying. I never know if the unsubscribe request worked or not. Give me a link any day.
The most misunderstood statistic in email marketing. A good discussion of why raw complaint rates isn’t the metric the ISPs use, and how it can mislead folks about their email program.
Office 365 is expanding it’s DKIM signing. Terry Zink discusses the upcoming changes to how Office365 handles DKIM signatures. This is exactly the kind of changes I was talking about in my 2016 predictions post – background changes that are going to affect how we authenticate email. He even specifically calls out whether or not a particular signature is DMARC aligned or not.
FBL updates
- laura
- Nov 12, 2008
Roadrunner shifted the release date for their new FBL to December 14th.
Despite rumors, the Yahoo FBL is not actually accepting new participants.
Yahoo FBL confirmation problems
- laura
- Oct 8, 2015
Over the last few months I’ve seen people complaining about losing the Yahoo FBL emails with verification codes. This seems to be intermittent and no one could really explain what was going on.
Dale Lopez, VP of operations for V12 group, shared that their operations group discovered that one issue with the missing verification emails has to do with the length of the From: address and a port25 default settings.
In Dale’s words: