Archive for August, 2008
Earthlink and the devil’s spam filter
Macworld’s Christopher Breen speaks out against unnecessary C/R Breaking away from the traditional Q&A format today, I’d like to offer a small piece of advice to Earthlink customers: Earthlink’s spamBlocker is the tool of the devil if it’s not configured properly. information
When should you use RSS instead of email?
Here’s an interesting read and take on the Randy Cunningham broadside against Yahoo! When is Spam not Spam? The thing is, it kind of is spam. I know that it’s not unsolicited and Randy doesn’t share his email lists and he has an unsubscribe link and honours all the unsubscribe requests promptly, but really, why [...]
Habeas Bye-ku
ReturnPath shivers Engulfs Habeas like spring Floats away from us. (See OpinionJournal for an explanation of the “bye-ku.” Of course, don’t forget that Habeas started out with putting a haiku into the headers of email.) Update: Maybe we’ll get a mini round-up of Habeas haiku. Laura at Word to the Wise has one up. Steve [...]
CAN-SPAM doesn’t change our contract
Remember CAN-SPAM is opt-out, not opt-in law :: BtoB Magazine In the article “Give your e-mail marketing new life,” (July 14, page 20), a senior director of ReturnPath is reported to have said that with e-mail databases being populated from multiple sources, “there’s more of a chance that your list contains e-mail addresses of people [...]
