Over at the Exacttarget blog, there is a guest post up from Annalivia who handles much of the sender support (and about 15 million other things) at AOL.
On the nights before Christmas…
when the relays are groaning under the loads
and ISP admins start to turn into toads
they tear out their hair and cry in despair
“why’s all this mail coming out of thin air?”
Head over to read the whole thing.
Last week Jon left a comment on my post Following the Script. He gives a familiar story about how he’s having problems contacting Yahoo.
Read MoreAl has a guest post up from an ISP rep (now universally referred to as Barry) about senders contacting ISPs. It lists things senders do that Barry Don’t Like.
Listen to Barry.
There are also comments from various other Barrys in the comments. Those are worth reading, too.
JD posed a question in my post about Postini and trying to sort out a customer getting marked as spam by their filtering mechanism and I think it bears more discussion than can be done in comments.
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