Re: [videoblogging] Blogs Need Email

Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:18:16 -0800

Yep.... email has a dark side, as we all know.
It's important for reputable mailing services to work directly with ISPs that may be blacklisting them.  Their are some services that can help by doing periodic checks (test mailings and bounce handling) and alert such a service to problems....  I use to deal with this a lot when i worked for a company that managed fan club sites and we did hundreds of thousands of mailings a week.. and also offered vanity email services.  Headache!

But things are getting better.... and Gmail and Yahoo seem pretty good at this game lately.

I do think that it is more important to have email systems improved more so than having people switch to just RSS readers.  Some have tried to mimic email using RSS... which is interesting but i dont know if that can be a logical long-term solution. Maybe... and there are plenty of supporting arguments... but spam can infiltrate anything given time.  If most people used RSS and not email, RSS would have more spam than email ;-)  And people will always need and use email no matter what.

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On 2/14/06, Deirdre Straughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have been running an email newsletter for nearly five years now, and these days am having so much difficulty getting mail to people that I am encouraging them to use an RSS feed instead - even when that includes me having to educate them as to what that means! Anti-spam systems are so hair-trigger sensitive that it's hard even for reputable third-party mailing services to get through. And a lot of people don't understand their ISPs' spam filters well enough to keep receiving your mail even when they want to.

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