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SendBlaster 2.0.116: List-Unsubscribe header, Sharing Buttons and New Report Tools

Good news for everyone! We’ve just published a new release of SendBlaster (v. 2.0.116). All SendBlaster 2 users can download it and install it free of charge. What’s new? We have included some general enhancements and introduced some cool new features that we are sure you’ll love. In particular: Facebook & Twitter Sharing buttons SendBlaster…

Chipotle’s No Junk Campaign Turns Your Spam Into Healthy School Meals

Chipotle Mexican Grill, the US chain of burrito restaurants, wants to turn junk mail into “junk-free” meals for kids, through its “No Junk” campaign. The company is encouraging Americans to forward their junk e-mails to nojunk@chipotlejunk.com where each forwarded piece of e-mail will help provide nutritious cafeteria meals for school children around the country through…

Small e-mail lists perform better than larger mailings – TrackReports E-mail Stats

We have just completed “TrackReports E-mail Stats” , an internal study we conducted on 4,000 mailings tracked by our newly launched email tracking tool – TrackReports. The results of the study are listed below. Method 4,000 email lists from TrackReports database were taken into account. In order to avoid distorsion from poorly designed or test…

What are People’s Perceptions of Spam? [Infographic]

The folks at Flowtown put together this awesome infographic detailing a variety of stats around people’s perceptions of spam. Click on the image to view the full-sized version. The data for the infographic comes from the: Ipsos Public Affairs 2010 MAAWG (Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group ) E-Mail Security Awareness and Usage Report. You can access…

Fake Facebook e-mail contains Trojan

There’s a new virus spreading via email which targets Facebook users. According to mxlab, the email includes downloadable files which include the Trojan virus: Bredolab. Anybody who receives a “Facebook Password Reset Confirmation” email should delete it right away. According to mxlab, the message is as follows: “This virus is being distributed through email, not…

Gmail Feature Aims to Save Email Embarrassment

Sometimes it happens to send an email to the wrong person.  Now Google tries to help users of Gmail with a brand new feature dubbed Got the wrong Bob?. It’s an alert that notices when there are similar names in your address book and asks you to confirm that the recipient named in the email…

Google Wave: The Next Revolution of Email

Google Wave has officially launched. It’s being offered to 100,000 lucky beta testers by invite only. Wave is a new collaboration tool lets users create “waves” where they can invite others to share photos, text, gadgets, and links. . It blends elements of email, wikis, instant messaging and social networking to try to make it…

Spam Learns a New Language

According to the latest MessageLabs Intelligence Report on spam from Symantec “Spam has reached its highest level in years”. In particular spam levels are at their worst in France, Germany and the Netherlands, where they have reached 95 percent. MessageLabs researchers claim that percentages are so high because spammers are using automated translation services and…