I want to thank everybody that started out the day really angry at me and are now giving me information to help stop sp@m.  For better or worse, I have the distinct feeling that this is garden variety sp@m and that my initial fantasy of adding to the growing ranks of jailed sp@mmers is probably just that.

Nevertheless, I’m studying resources that I’ve been able to ignore up till now, such as SpamCop.net, and I’ve also informed FeedBlitz, in case they can help on their end.

FeedBlitz has been very proactive about addressing delivery issues but we all know that this issue is plaguing everyone and I remember getting many emails like those attributed to me from a wide range of email addresses, so I don’t know how they’ll be able to help beyond their current efforts.

[Update: Phil Hollows at FeedBlitz just confirmed my feeling that this may not be all that easy to address and that it's probably not a spoofing issue per se.  I guess my insistence on the value of newsletters is going to force me to understand a lot of things I never had to deal with so directly before.]

[Update 2: Due to recently uncovered information, I will be doing a full report on this topic tomorrow, plus trying to follow up on posts mentioned in the next paragraph.]

I’ll see you tomorrow with some posts I’ve been claiming I’d write that got sidelined when I realized how long it’s been since I’ve done a hip hop marketing press release round up [yes, the high cost of beef!].  I posted a month’s worth today and realized that I need to put such postings on a regular weekly schedule rather than pursuing my previous haphazard approach.

I’d like to do the same for roundups of blog posts from hip hop bloggers writing on marketing and from marketing bloggers with relevant, if not hip hop specific posts.  There is a slowly growing dialogue emerging between hip hop bloggers and marketing bloggers with related interests and I think we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg with all sorts of professionally relevant possibilities ahead.

By the way, I’ve had so many positive encounters of late despite the beefy goodness of recent days, that I really don’t see how I could stand to shut this blog down anytime soon.  I mention that because many of you know I’ve been working my way through a crisis of rather odd dimensions.  Suffice it to say that I’m sticking around and focusing in on what remains one of the coolest projects with which I’ve been associated for quite some time.

Besides, I’ve always got Brand Destruction Research to slate my hunger for beef!