ArchiveSeptember 2008

September 30, 2008

Constituents clog lawmaker mail servers

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30September

With the recent credit market turmoil and the proposed 700 billion dollar bail out bill many, many Americans are taking the opportunity to contact their congressional representatives. This increase in traffic has resulted in the house.gov website being slow or unresponsive, the mailservers being clogged and the phone system straining. In response to the increased load, the CAO has put some limits...

September 29, 2008

Confirmed (double) opt-in in the wild

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29September

Lashback gives an example of the use of confirmed opt-in in the wild.

September 27, 2008

What he said

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27September

After 2 weeks of travel and too many airport experiences, Seth’s post of random travel thoughts this morning resonated with me.

September 26, 2008

Fingerpointing all around

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26September

Mickey has copies of affidavits filed by David Linhardt and his lawyers all denying they were responsible for missing the court’s deadline.

September 25, 2008

The Question

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25September

Mark Brownlow has a list of 12 questions every email marketer should ask about their marketing program. Buried in the middle is the most important question for delivery. Do you worry more about what ISPs think about your email than what subscribers think about your email? If you take care of the latter, won’t the former take care of itself? My answer is if a sender is worried more about...

September 24, 2008

MAAWG

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24September

Chris Nixon has a post talking about the background of MAAWG and why he is here in Ft. Lauderdale.

September 23, 2008

Links to check out

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23September

Things are going well, if busy, here at the conference. I am attending lots of sessions and continuing to edit my talk for tomorrow. I thought I would list some random links that have come up here recently. Lashback is advertising a joint webinar with Habeas, Publishers Clearinghouse and Lashback on how to protect brands and increase revenues with reputation management. Terry Zink explains the...

September 22, 2008

Appropriating reputation

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22September

One of the thing savvy spammers are doing these days is appropriating the reputation of someone else. Reputation appropriate takes many forms. Some spammers hijack windows machines, turn them into bots and send spam through major ISP smarthosts. “Legitimate email marketers” buy service from mainstream ESPs to send their permission-challenged email that they cannot get delivered...

September 19, 2008

MAAWG

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19September

I head off to MAAWG on Sunday where I will catch up with the people I have not seen since last October. One of the very nice things about email delivery right now is the industry is small enough to know almost everyone involved. While MAAWG is only one of a number of conferences, it is one of the few where senders and receivers both attend. I expect that I will come back from the conference with...

September 18, 2008

The dog ate my discovery responses

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18September

When we last visited our intrepid litigants, Spamhaus’ lawyers had filed a motion to dismiss citing yet another failure by e360 to meet a court ordered discovery deadline. Let me set the stage. e360 misses deadline after deadline during discovery. They skip depositions. They stall and provide incomplete answers weeks or months after they are due. Finally, in mid-July the Spamhaus’...