Ray Everett-Church

It may be a truism that “little things mean a lot,” but in the world of spam, flipping a single switch can have huge consequences that span the globe. We saw that concept reinforced this past week when McColo Corp., an Internet hosting firm based in San Jose, Calif., had its Internet connection shut off […]

With growth rates of spam, phishing, and e-mail-borne malware showing no signs of abating, more and more ISPs and enterprises are implementing stronger protective measures. Many of these anti-spam techniques are well known to those of us in the e-mail industry tasked with managing “deliverability” – the art and science of getting e-mail delivered to […]

According to the majority of the testimony at this month’s “Spam Summit,” held by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the state of the fight against spam is pretty much the same as it has been for the last several years. The two days of presentations can largely be boiled down to the following bullets: […]

With control of the United States Congress changing hands in 2007, we can expect a number of legislative initiatives in the coming year that will affect privacy. The business-sponsored lobbying groups are already sharpening their press release templates, the ones that predict dire consequences for any and every business if (insert regulatory proposal here) is […]

When word went out earlier this month that AOL had publicly released user search data, resulting in the identities and sometimes lurid interests of thousands of users being laid bare for the world to see, it was actually good news for those people interested in privacy. While embarrassing for AOL –- not to mention those […]