Email advice: Pick a domain and stick with it!
Thursday, January 12th, 2006 Posted in Annoyances, Computers/Internet, Spam | 3 Comments »Here’s a piece of friendly advice from a mail server admin to companies that interact with subscribers and customers via email:
Pick one domain name for your business. Just one. Don’t use any other domains in your emails, even if you want to keep order confirmations separate from promotions. If you contract out for some other company to send out a newsletter or survey to your customers, insist that they send it out using your own domain name. If you’re using DomainKeys or SPF, make sure they’re authorized or send it yourself. And don’t even think of making the links through redirection scripts, even if you really want to track which subscribers are clicking.
Why?
Two words: Spam and fraud. Read the rest of this entry »
Mail-order Tumbleweeds!
Friday, March 18th, 2005 Posted in Strange World | No Comments »Just what I always needed! Proving that “you can sell anything on the Internet,” it’s Prairie Tumbleweed Farm, purveyor of “organically grown,” “100% Y2K-compliant” tumbleweeds.
It wouldn’t be much use here in Orange County, where all you have to do is pull over to the side of the road at the right time of the year. Maybe in the off-season.
(Via the Daily Sucker. You have been warned.)
