Email Hall of Shame
Email is about relationships
Did you know that it’s entirely possible to learn the wrong lessons? Well, it is. I use Zemanta to suggest possible links for blog posts. As I was writing yesterday’s blog post, a suggested link came up dealing with CAN-SPAM and the definition of “spam”. That link shows how some people just don’t get it [...]
Pre-Existing Business Relationships Don’t Matter
Image by Getty Images via Daylife I was reading the Terms of Service for an ESP today. Under the section entitled “Affirmative Consent” we read: Clients may only use [the ESP] to send email to individuals who have either provided affirmative consent through an “opt-in” process that they want to receive the type of email [...]
The Eleventh Commandment
Image via Wikipedia When you do business with a government agency, at just about any level, you surrender a certain amount of privacy. Whatever you give to the agency is likely going to be subject to so-called “sunshine” laws that go by names like “Freedom of Information” or “Freedom of Access.” Recently, some sportsmen have [...]
Email Hall of Shame: MySanAntonio.com
It’s Turkey Day and apparently time for another entry in the Email Hall of Shame. Today’s honoree is MySanAntonio.com, the website for the San Antonio Express-News. My mail reader is setup to not display images by default. As a result, here’s the entire email I saw in my inbox: Let’s just start by saying “WOW! [...]
What’s in your wallet? Spam!
In the annals of Bad Marketing Ideas comes this attempt by Capital One to define any mail they choose to send to be transactional mail: Kevin, a 40-year-old from Sacramento, Calif., likes to keep a tidy inbox. He’s very deliberate about removing himself from mailing lists and anything else that might clog up his e-mail. [...]
Could Spamford be going to jail?
Accused Facebook spammer could face jail time – Facebook, jail, lawsuits, legal – Computerworld Judge Jeremy Fogel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California referred Sanford Wallace to the U.S. Attorney General’s Office for criminal proceedings for allegedly violating an injunction that prohibited him from accessing Facebook. api
Russians selling spam lists
A Symantec blog post reports that Russian spammers are now selling lists. Do you have a business and things go wrong? Order a spam list, everything comes to normal. This is not a mere assertion, we have more than 100 clients, and neither of them is not going to abandon our services and do not [...]
It’s all about….
What does it take to get someone to understand that emailing is about accuracy and permission? ZoomInfo appears not to get this. Well, I actually think that they do get it, but they just don’t care about it. Getting permission before emailing is bad for business at least as far as I can see that [...]
Elsevier shows how not to do it
In October of 2004, I registered with the Lancet in order to gain access to an article. Since that point, Elsevier Ltd., has been sending me email. After their mailing on July 11 of this year, I finally got tired of it, went to their website, and cleared all of the checkboxes. That is to [...]
EmailAppenders are plagiarists too?
It certain looks like EmailAppenders’ “anti-spam policy page” is a verbatim, but unattributed copy of an article by Kirill Popov. Well, except that they took the text and left off the link at the end of the first paragraph. api
Shameless Self-Promotion
