Return Path has an interesting post on the lasting effects of aggressive holiday marketing.
March 15, 2012
Lasting effects from aggressive marketing
15March
February 29, 2012
Leap day email promotions
29February
I’ve been seeing a number of companies send out email marketing special offers for Leap day. My favorite so far:
Celebrating Leap Day with Free Standard Ground Shipping on your $29 purchase
February 27, 2012
Spam poetry
27February
An actual spam I just received:
Rapturously for laura@myaddress.invalid
But that one word expressed an entreaty, a threat, and above all conction that she would herself regret her words.
Proposal area: Drop in Now
Without equivocation your, Mcpartland Kleutertafel.
February 16, 2012
Before you build a list
16February
I can’t add much more to Steve Denner’s article about building list size.
February 4, 2012
MAAWG travel alert
04February
For those of you coming to the Bay Area for MAAWG and considering flying into Oakland, be aware the Bay Bridge will be closed in the Oakand -> San Francisco direction for all of President’s day weekend. BART is unaffected, but if you’re planning on driving from Oakland into the city, you’ll have to do it by going south over the San Mateo bridge and then back north to the city.
January 31, 2012
DKIM deployment challenges
31January
Cloudmark has an interesting blog post pointing out some of the challenges of signing mail with DKIM in a large company with a diverse mail system.
January 25, 2012
What are you validating?
25January
Al throws in his own two cents on the question of real time address validation.
January 16, 2012
Is any data safe?
16January
Today another major retailer announced their customer files were compromised. This company had clearly implemented some security that kept hackers from getting too much information. Passwords were hashed and credit card numbers were kept on a separate server, which does signal that the company designed with security in mind. Nevertheless, personal information was compromised. Is there anyway to...
December 13, 2011
The Constitutionality of SOPA
13December
Lawrence Tribe, a professor of constitutional law at Harvard, says SOPA violates the first amendment.
December 9, 2011
SOPA / PIPA
09December
I’ve not mentioned anything about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and it’s companion bill the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) that are currently making their ways through Congress. Both bills put a lot of obligation on the ISPs to stop bad traffic on the Internet. Unfortunately, it seems no one writing the bill asked anyone with technical or operational experience for input...
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