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Todd Moeller, a 28-year-old New Jersey man, was sentenced to 27 months in prison last week after pleading guilty to sending spam to 1.2 million AOL addresses on behalf of an unidentified government informant.

Direct Response Technologies Inc. has begun offering e-mail list suppression services from UnsubCentral Inc.

Speak to e-mail marketers for any length of time about their craft, and sooner or later the topic of deliverability will come up. This year's e-mail roundtable was no exception as four top e-mailers outlined what they see as having the biggest impact on the industry in the last year and going into 2008.

Online political group Truthout.org cried foul recently after Hotmail and AOL blocked its e-mail. At the same time, Yahoo! apparently has been shunting

Charles Stiles, the former postmaster at AOL, has signed on with Goodmail Systems as the e-mail authentication firm's new vice president of worldwide business development, Goodmail has confirmed.

Charles Stiles, AOL

E-mail average open rates were down 3% earlier this year from the same period last year, according to a benchmark report from e-mail service provider MailerMailer. Does this mean 3% fewer people on average are opening their e-mails? Nope. It means the most stupidly named metric in the history of marketing is continuing its long…

Responsys yesterday announced it has developed an on-demand collaborative software product that, according to the e-mail marketing technology provider, allows marketers to manage projects with people in multiple locations more efficiently. Dubbed Responsys Interact Team, the product opens a new line of business for the company.

The Federal Trade Commission yesterday in a press release published figures saying 30.2 million Americans or 13.5% of U.S. adults fell victim to fraud. Not surprisingly, e-mail was used to deliver a significant percentage of the pitches

E-mail services marketing and sales veteran Dave Hendricks has signed on with pay-for-performance marketing firm Datran Media as vice president of market strategy, the company announced yesterday.