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New Email RFCs

JD Falk has a good article about RFCs, email standards and delivery.

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Buying Data

Over on Spam Resource Al posted about data sellers and the ESP that supports them. As part of the post, he lists the pricing for email address lists.

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Email Standards Updated

This morning I received notification that the IETF had approved RFC5321 and RFC5322. These two RFCs are standards track and are updating the current email standards RFC821/822 and RFC2821/2822.
MailChannels has a description of the changes between 2821/2822 and 5321/5322. While the new RFCs obsolete the old ones, they are more a clarification than actual changes to the protocols. Dave Crocker had this to say about the new documents.

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Catching up

I am still catching up from being away at MAAWG last week, and have not had much time to blog or even follow other blogs enough to link to what people are saying.
I would encourage those of you who are not MAAWG members to consider joining the organization. MAAWG has been working hard on putting together sender training courses. I gave part of one of them. I also attended all the other training sessions and learned quite a bit from those sessions as well.
MAAWG, as its name suggests, is a working group. There are opportunities for everyone to teach, participate and learn. The next meeting, is in San Francisco next February.

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Constituents clog lawmaker mail servers

With the recent credit market turmoil and the proposed 700 billion dollar bail out bill many, many Americans are taking the opportunity to contact their congressional representatives. This increase in traffic has resulted in the house.gov website being slow or unresponsive, the mailservers being clogged and the phone system straining.
In response to the increased load, the CAO has put some limits on incoming email and is restricting the number of e-mails sent via the “Write Your Representative” function of the House website.

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Confirmed (double) opt-in in the wild

Lashback gives an example of the use of confirmed opt-in in the wild.

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What he said

After 2 weeks of travel and too many airport experiences, Seth’s post of random travel thoughts this morning resonated with me.

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Fingerpointing all around

Mickey has copies of affidavits filed by David Linhardt and his lawyers all denying they were responsible for missing the court’s deadline.

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The Question

Mark Brownlow has a list of 12 questions every email marketer should ask about their marketing program. Buried in the middle is the most important question for delivery.

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MAAWG

Chris Nixon has a post talking about the background of MAAWG and why he is here in Ft. Lauderdale.

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