Kevin Hillstrom over at MineThatData blog talks about using email metrics and other customer information to not market to people who cost a company money.
Analyzing email
Over at the VerticalResponse blog, Janine walks us through analyzing clicks in an email and sets herself new things to test in future mailings. Well worth a read.
Smart email marketing
Mark Brownlow has an ongoing series of posts looking at the strategies and tactics that distinguish a smart email marketer from a bulk email marketer that is well worth reading.
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Excite outsourcing email
Excite announced this morning that they are outsourcing all their incoming email functions to BlueTie. This means that the Excite FBL and whitelist are being discontinued with no plans for replacement. Over at Deliverabity.com, Dennis is accepting feedback from senders to forward on to Excite. Edit: I am going to close comments on this post. This is not the place for Excite endusers to comment...
Conference suggestion
Seth has a great suggestion on how to make your conference staff famous and thank them for their hard work.
New Yahoo Domains
Yahoo announced two new email domains today.
Download Day
Today Firefox3 is released. The Mozilla Foundation is trying to set a record for number of downloads in a single day. Go download it!
Authenticating email in a court of law
Venkat has a discussion of authentication needed to present emails to a judge when asking for a summary judgment.
Whitelisting
Derek has a really good article on whitelisting and what it means over at ClickZ.
Email Aptitude Test
MailChimp has an email aptitude test. How did you fare?