The Abusive Hosts Blocking List

Although the policies in this document have been in effect for a long time, to better prepare individuals requesting removal from the AHBL database, please be aware of the following...

When requesting removal from the AHBL, our policy is to require that in cases involving E-mail Service Providers, direct UCE senders, mailing list maintainers, and similar, that they provide us with details on how the original e-mail address that received the mail was added to requester's mailing list.  Although the CAN-SPAM act does not directly require you to keep opt-in information, the onus is on the sender to be able to back up the claim that they are following the CAN-SPAM act and any other applicable laws. 

The easiest way to do this, is to keep information such as the following with your database:

Sadly, some people just don't know when to stop and change their behavior. An excellent example of this is master sock puppeteer, Andrew Stephens.

Over at Spam Resource, Al Iverson has a post confirming what pretty much every spam fighter knows, but what every spammer will deny and scream bloody murder over - it is fully legal and within the rights of an ISP to block/refuse e-mail, even if it is claimed to be CAN-SPAM compliant.

If you don't believe us, have a read over at his blog.

Please remember that the AHBL may define spam/uce/ube differently from others, so have a look at our listing policies.

Each and every hour of every day, children are exploited, harmed and molested by truly evil people and they are helped, unwittingly, by thousands of people who would be mortified if they knew just how big a role they're playing in the spread of child pornography and advocacy of pedophilia.

Read the full article by Marc Bissonnette at his website.

Organic, Pay Per Click, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Socila Media Advertising, Link Farming, print/paper/radio/television advertising, direct mail marketing, email marketing – The list of methods for getting your company's brand and message out there actually goes on even further.

Read the full article by Marc Bissonnette at his website.

Part 2 of the article, Destroy A Life With Your Keyboard, has been posted on InfoExecutive.  For those who didn't get to read the first one, this is a series of articles detailing Marc Bissonnette's dealings with a crazed and insane stalker.

With the shift in the economy over the past year and a half, more and more people are looking for ways to either supplement their income, or start out on their own with self employment.

Read the full article by Marc Bissonnette on Canadian ISP.

I needed to know this number for a discussion elsewhere, but it took a lot of looking (Google seemed to think I wanted to know conversion rates, or how to "increase my signup rates by a million percent!". Here is what I found:

Read the full article by Marc Bissonnette at his website.

I was spammed today by someone pushing an employment site. This isn't uncommon at all. The site they were promoting was unprofessional, looking like it was thrown together in about 5 minutes using MS word and there were several "Coming Soon" links. This isn't unusual, either. I sent her (the spammer) a note telling her that not only was she spamming, she was spamming a very poorly thought out site with little content and terrible design. We're still not at the unusual stage, yet.

Read the full article by Marc Bissonnette at his website.