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 who [...]

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What breed of dog should “Arf, the spam-reporting dog” be?

Just for fun, I thought we might come up with a mascot for ARF, the Abuse Reporting Format.
(If, for some reason, the poll errors on you, try using the copy in the right hand column.)

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The dangers of having the same name

A number of years ago, my sister was almost arrested by the police in Odessa, Texas. It wasn’t because of anything she had done, but because she happened to have the same name and also happened to be exactly one year older than another person who did have outstanding arrest warrants.
KXAN is reporting about [...]

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I’d Better Get a Heavy-Duty Tire Gauge

So, The Word I am hearing is that John McCain is somehow an idiot for taking issue with Barak Obama’s insistence that we need to properly inflate our tires and get tune-ups to save as much gasoline as “all the oil that they’re talking about getting off drilling.”

Think Progress follows up the ridicule with a [...]

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Obama: Bush & McCain made the same mistake I did on “the surge”

Obama admits drop in Iraqi violence was more than he had anticipated - Los Angeles Times
Earlier Sunday, in an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Obama acknowledged that he had failed to anticipate the sharp decline in attacks in Iraq, but he contended that President Bush and McCain had made the same mistake.
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Addressing what has [...]

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Vacation: Day 0

We left on our vacation today at 12:30.
Into the minivan we went and drove until about 10:30 p.m. We stopped in Hayti, Missouri, for the night and stayed at the Drury Inn.
[googleMap name="Drury Inn" description="Where we stayed the first night." directions_to="false"]1317 E Highway 84, Hayti, MO 63851[/googleMap]

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Time for Some Campaignin’

Time for Some Campaignin’ — this year’s JibJab election video.
Quite funny.

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It’s Cancer

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A few years ago, my dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Now, cancer is rearing its ugly head again. This time, it’s Carol, my wife.

She had a two spots on her breast biopsied yesterday. We just got the call to say that both spots were cancerous.

The news isn’t all bad. The spots were caught in a mammogram with follow-up ultrasounds. The biggest was 6mm. So, we got it early and the prognosis is good.

MickC @ August 27, 2008

When should you use RSS instead of email?

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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 do we need to use email for this? I used to subscribe to lots of email lists. Like ten years ago. But we have blogs now and RSS newsfeeds.

It brings up an interesting question or two: When and for what should you use email? And should you consider moving from email to RSS?

MickC @ August 18, 2008

Habeas Bye-ku

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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 at Word to the Wise has a collection of email delivery related haiku.

Al Iverson has also done one.

MickC @ August 12, 2008