Earthlink FBL's new

Earthlink is opening up their feedback loop to ESPs.

To take advantage of this, requests should be sent to fblrequest@abuse.earthlink.net with the following information:

• mail server range(s) (IPs/CIDRs)
• FBL address (where complaints are directed)
• technical contact email
• ESP name and contact info

When Email Images, Go Bad.

Why you shouldn't use images as company names and postal addresses.

"Thank you for contacting ISP

Why are senders including a graphic of your company name and address details? 

These things do not differentiate you from a snowshoe/affiliate spammer.

The ip range originally dropped in reputation as you sent a whole heap of mail

from a ton of addresses to just one of our customers in a very short space of

time. 

Kindest regards,

James... ISP Customer Support"

-- Summary from customer's request to get unblocked from ISP.

CON:B1 AOL error code, aol postmaster remarks

 CON:B1 AOL error code

Hello,

If your mail is being deferred with a CON:B1 error code, you may be experiencing a block given to IPs with poor reputation. This is not a permanent block, nor does it mean that none of your mail is being delivered; we will deliver enough of it to enable us to see any positive changes to your mail stream. Your reputation will be recalculated based on that mail.  As your reputation improves, so will your delivery. For help with IP reputation, please see:

http://postmaster-blog.aol.com/2008/10/24/ip-reputation-the-whitelist-and-inbox-delivery-at-aol/

http://postmaster.aol.com/Postmaster.Guidelines.html

Please apply for Feedback Loop at our website

http://postmaster.aol.com/Postmaster.FeedbackLoop.php

Please make appropriate changes and allow 8-10 days for your reputation to change, and re-evaluate your delivery before opening a follow up ticket.

Thank you,

Nascita

AOL Postmaster.

AOL Redirects

Aol is now unencoding url redirects for their webmail clients.

The problem related to what appears to be a change in the AOL web client.  

Details:

You send a url encoded clickthru link in the email, and then look for a url encoded url when you get it back to the redirect server.  AOL began UNencoding the url, so when you got it back, it wasn’t what you expected and you might not have logic to handle it.

In the client, if you did an inspect on the link, it showed the unencoded version, which is what was sent to the redirect server.  

But, if you right click and look at the source of the email, it still showed it to be encoded (ie, what you might have actually sent). 

From my point of view, AOL has definitely changed something in the way they handle clickthru links, so I guess just be advised.

We added code to handle both ways and it appears to be working fine now.

A new funny email from twitter - Blank Follower!

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another top ten RANT

top ten things to do when working with "clock punchers"

A clock puncher (CP) is someone who works 9-5 or whatever he/she schedule is. Doesn't bother to look around the corners and equally difficult for them to regularly get outside of a box. They're usually unpleasant and extremely frustrating to work with. The frustration doesn't always revolve around their work habits but also with there "debby downer" mentality. Here are the top 10 things you can do when working with these people. 

10) Email request to CP. 

9)  Send another request to CP. 

8)  Send another request to CP. 

7)  Send another request to CP. 

6)  Send another request to CP. 

5)  Send another request to CP. 

4)  Send another request to CP. 

3)  Send another request to CP. 

2)  Call CP and ask why request wasn't done. 

and the number 1 thing you can do?

1)  Cry in the phone hoping the water will shock and kill you when they tell you, "they need a documented email request."

Sex, Alcohol and Showers

What Americans Would
Give Up for the Internet

Sex, Alcohol and Showers: What Americans Would Give Up for the Internet Just what would you give up if the Internet was taken away from you? For some, sex, alcohol, showers, and chocolate are on the list, according to a report by the Boston Consulting Group. The study, which is focused on the importance of the Internet on the economy, predicts that by 2016 the Internet will account for 5.2 precent of GDP for G20 countries. However, it’s the supporting facts that show how dependent consumers are on the Internet. And the findings are both striking and humorous. The researchers found that 21 percent of Americans would give up sex for Internet connectivity. As the infographic below illustrates, 73 percent would give up alcohol, 69 percent would give up coffee, and 77 percent chocolate rather than give up the Internet for the year.