There will be some light blogging here through the end of the year. We are headed out for our first vacation in years next week, then will be spending some time with family. I will be blogging before we leave and will try to get some posts written to trickle out while I’m gone. I hope everyone has a happy and relaxed holiday season. I am looking forward to resting, recharging and returning...
TWSD!
One important aspect of getting good delivery is to look like legitimate email. A big part of that is to not do what spammers do. More specifically, do not do the things that ISPs trigger on when identifying spammers. There are a lot of these “tricks” and “delivery techniques” used by spammers. They may seem like tiny things, but these are things that any legitimate mailer...
Go vote!
If you are a US citizen, do not forget to go vote today. This is it, the culmination of way too many months of politicking and campaigning. Be part of the finish.
Light blogging next 2 weeks.
There will probably be light blogging here the next 2 weeks. Tomorrow I am off to a friend’s wedding down south and next Sunday I am off to the MAAWG meeting in Ft. Lauderdale for 4 days.
New Blog Theme
As you can see we have updated the blog theme. This is a custom theme based on the WordPress K2 theme. The overall look is much lighter and fits in better with our main website. As part of the change I have also re-categorized all the previous posts into 4 categories: Best Practices contains posts about best practices for delivery, both in terms of technology and in terms of policy. This is also...
Hard drive failure
I’m feeing a bit disconnected today. See, my hard drive failed last night and my laptop would not boot. Thanks to the local Apple store Genius bar and Apple Care my current laptop is in getting repaired. Unfortunately, that means I am stuck on my old machine without any of my RSS feeds or bookmarks and a mail client that has taken all day to sync with my IMAP server.
Tomorrow will be better.
Report subscriber and changes to whitelisting at some ISPs
If you’re reading this through the archives please check the date before commenting on this post. Mark Brownlow has a post on a new technology for senders. I think this will help ensure senders have a say in the general delivery of mail for receivers. Through the grapevine, I have also heard there’s a new technology developed by a company called Purple Cod. This technology makes it...