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Comment on Email now suffers the problem of carrier pigeons by @sfioritto

@sfioritto — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:42:58 +0000

Of course I ran into this problem while working on Postosaurus. If you're a good email citizen, I bet you can get over 80% delivered. I had a group of people using Postosaurus over yahoo groups because the email was delivered more reliably. This is a pretty good list:
http://code.alexreisner.com/articles/sending-emai...

I also recommend authstmp.com (this is what I did) for smtp, or set up your own box.

Comment on Email now suffers the problem of carrier pigeons by Sean

Sean — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:13:21 +0000

Glen,
fair points but I'm already assuming that the email is important, quality content and desired by the customer. Think of things like getting an email from your bank before your account is about to be overdrawn or getting an overdue notice from the water company if your payment was late and they're about to shut your water off. There's definitely a severity gradient to the types of emails one cares about but if your app is generating it I'm taking it as given that you're already addressing that. For the purpose of what I'm asking assume the communication is justified and desired- how do you best ensure that it reaches the recipient? And is staying within the realm of email the answer. It may be simply an issue of properly educating the recipient on whitelisting you as a sender. Or it may involve turning to alternate mediums. I'm just curious how people are handling it.

Agreed spam has created this situation. There is clearly a problem here- it may very well be an opportunity for some startup to fix too. Solve this effectively and sell it as a service and it's something we'd probably buy.

Sean

Comment on Email now suffers the problem of carrier pigeons by Glen

Glen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:21:43 +0000

Designing a service where people want to, and expect to, receive emails is important. If people don't give a monkey''s about your email, then they won't care if it does not arrive. The other point is that your emails should have a high signal-to-noise ratio – the amount of forums and support sites I have to sign up for just to get some help with software or a product is ridiculous – half the time I use these sites so rarely, that there is no point in making me jump through 6-million hoops just to post a question.

Crapplications have caused half the problem – it's not just about spam. Make something worthwhile that sends me worthwhile information and 1 I will be happy to get emails from it, 2 I might even consider paying for, or donating to, it

Most people's inboxes are so full of spam you need to stand out!

Comment on Kernel Dump for November (and Aug and Sept and Oct) by sean_tierne2149

sean_tierne2149 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:09:12 +0000

Good point James. I had St. Vincent dePaul come and pick up the stuff I didn't sell. For $10 they'll take everything you have including clothes, furniture and computer stuff. This is the page to schedule a pickup with them: https://secure5.extremezone.com/stvdpssl/pickups….

Also there's AZStrut which is specifically focused on computer donations: http://www.azstrut.org/

SVdP requires a few days of lead time to schedule a pickup and AZStrut has only dropoff locations. There's also the VNSA booksale organization for books: http://www.vnsabooksale.org/

Comment on Takeaways from running a yardsale by james brtt

james brtt — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:00:36 +0000

And for the things you can't sell and don't want to drag around, find some good homes.

You can get Goodwill to pick up clothing, and books should go to the public library.

Might also be useful to plan the yard sale close to whenever your city's electronics recycling day is, so you can move it straight there.

Comment on Everything must go! by Takeaways from running a yardsale

Takeaways from running a yardsale — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:18:07 +0000

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Comment on 50 acoustic artists you need to know by Sean Tierney

Sean Tierney — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:23:51 +0000

Just got a great new suggestion from my brother- Nico Stai. Check this guy out, he's killer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEziAx8kwCM

Comment on Everything must go! by sean_tierne2149

sean_tierne2149 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:48:01 +0000

Derek- will do. I'll come by the brownbag on Wed and donate whatever books haven't sold to the GP library.

sean

Comment on Everything must go! by Derek Neighbors

Derek Neighbors — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:19:55 +0000

If you still have books left before the move, feel free to donate them to the Gangplank library. :)

Comment on You Are (not) Here: the perils of LBS by Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:22:16 +0000

A big shift in our society has occurred the past few years. We have gone from fearing the security of the internet to anything/everything goes, your nobody unless everything about you is transparent. There is little to no digital hygiene that is of any concern with many of the nets younger users. This is all they have known since HS, so it must be safe, secure, and no problem. I don’t know where this all nets out for privacy and society. Caution is still necessary, storage is unlimited and cheap and everything is connected.