I'm looking forward to the upcoming Message Systems User Conference next month in San Francisco, not only for what looks like an excellent venue, but for the great set of quality sessions on the agenda.

There's a number of sessions I'm looking forward to attending, but I'd like to invite you to attend the sessions I'll be delivering next month (read to the end to save on conference admission):

What the Convergence of Data Security & Privacy Concerns Will Mean to Companies

The barrage of news stories about data breaches and privacy violations is taking a toll on consumer confidence.

What You'll Learn:

• Why data …

One... *billion* emails!

One *Billion* Emails

In email marketing there are senders of all shapes and sizes, from small businesses using self-serve ESPs to the largest web properties self-sending to massive user bases. While only a few senders will reach or exceed volumes of one billion messages per month, the tools and practices needed to achieve such a volume level are applicable to all senders who want to succeed in email marketing.

Who Am I?

My name is Mike Hillyer (click here for bio and social links). I manage a team of Sales Engineers for Message Systems, a leading provider of digital messaging solutions for both senders and receivers. In my work over the last several years I have helped a number of …

Recently Digg linked to an article titled ‘Comcast Caught Filtering Political E-Mails‘.

The short version is that an online special interest group noticed that they were having issues with mail not being delivered when sent to Comcast addresses. They then worked their way though the Comcast abuse department to finally find that Symantec’s Brightmail was filtering on their domain name and identifying all their messages as spam. The cause for the block? 46,000 complaints filed against messages that contained the domain name of the special interest group. Symantec, once contacted was quick to remove the domain from its filters.

There’s a few lessons to be learned here about filtering and deliverability, first let’s look at …