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Goodmail Systems is expected to announce Thursday its CertifiedEmail system has been adopted by Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner and Verizon.

David Linhardt

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Robert Soloway, the man arrested last week for allegedly sending millions of spam e-mails and touting electronic messaging software and services that didn’t work as advertised, deposited more than $1.6 million in various bank accounts from 2003 to 2006—all as the result of spam and fraud, according to an affidavit from the Internal Revenue Service.

What is it about marketers in Boston and their uncanny ability to concoct promotions that make people think they’re in danger of imminent death? On the heels of a Cartoon Network bomb scare that paralyzed the city in January, police evacuated a strip mall last week because of a botched fax promotion that some Bank…

Microsoft offered an eye-popping statistic at its Authentication and Online Trust Summit in April: Ninety percent of incoming marketing e-mail the software

News Corp.'s popular community Web site said Thursday that it settled a spam-related lawsuit it had brought against The Globe.com.

One of the country's most notorious spammers was arrested Wednesday in Seattle, according to reports.

Contrary to what many marketers believe, spammy looking content is generally not the reason Internet service providers block incoming e-mail, according to a study released today by Lyris Technologies. User complaints and heavy use of images are two of the more prevalent reasons e-mail gets blocked, according to the e-mail software provider

AOL last week spurred a ruckus in the e-mail marketing industry when it rolled out a new version of its AOL.com and AIM.com free e-mail services that automatically block images by default. First the Email Experience Council issued a report saying that the services were blocking all images by default. Then deliverability concern Return Path…