Spamhaus Unblocks Mail from Amazon EC2 – Sort of

October 20th, 2009 by Rebecca Herson | Category: IP Reputation | View Comments

Spammers excel at coming up with new tricks to bypass email filters, and in the last week or so, their latest trick was to distribute their messages via Amazon’s EC2 cloud service.  As a result, according to this article on SearchCloudComputing, the well-known global real-time block list Spamhaus blocked the entire EC2 range, which meant [...]

Seth Godin on Spam Filtering

April 23rd, 2008 by Rebecca Herson | Category: Email Security | View Comments

As usual, marketing guru Seth Godin has something useful and interesting to say, in this case about his disappointment with spam filters that block his legitimate mail (both mail he was supposed to receive, and mail he had sent to others).
“Stopping spam is a worthless endeavor when you also stop non-spam,” he writes.
Hear hear! I [...]