March 8th, 2008
deliverability . Email . internet . Privacy . Return Path . spam
The Many Words on Spam and Email
Years ago when I first began blogging, I thought I’d blog alot about spam. I’ve had plenty of opportunity, and have done minor posts here and there over the years – either here or on the Return Path blog, but never did keep the momentum going.
I guess the biggest reason I don’t blog more about spam still is that there are lots of other folks blogging about spam – and their doing a pretty darn good job, so what else could there be to add?
Here’s some of the spam blogs I follow:
The Spam Diaries by Ed Falk
Al Iverson’s Spam Resource
E-mail, tech policy and more by John Levine
SpamSuite.com
Terry Zinks Anti-spam Blog
Word to the Wise
There are a lot more than this – but these are the ones that I enjoy. Also, Planet Antispam, I think by Mr. Levine, seems to aggregate at least three of the above blogs if you want a one stop shop.
There are *many* blogs on E-mail marketing and deliverability, and while they may touch on spam, they are really focused on the better sides of email. Blogs I enjoy in this category include:
Return Path’s Online Resource Center for Email Marketers – (of course I’d list this!)
The Email Wars
Campaign Monitor Blog
Maximizing Deliverability
No man is an iland
Email Karma
As far as Internet Privacy blogs go, I haven’t found many, but here are a few I track:
BenEdelman.org
Chapell Blog
Privacy.org
I suppose I could blog more Privacy stuff, but face it, privacy stuff is dry and boring on the face of it. Yeah that’s a big part of my career, and although privacy online and data issues continue to get more and more relevant to ecommerce and business online, it is not a topic folks clamor to chat about.
I probably enjoy email deliverability blogs the least – maybe because I feel like I know all that stuff (and I probably don’t) or maybe it just feels like continue rehash of a lot of unchanging basics (don’t be an evil spammer or inadvertently behave like one). Maybe I’ve just worked in email WAY TOO LONG.
The anti-spam stuff is good – John Levine and Terry Zink hit good topics, are clear and succinct, and always have an interesting perspective that I usually don’t hear elsewhere.
So, all that said, I may try to pick up the pen a bit more on “spam” – maybe there is more to add on this nowadays. We’ll see.
