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by _dan 16y ago
There are plenty of services around that are capable of this sort of throughput. But I suspect you'd be better off with one catering to larger companies (rather than the Mailchimp/CampaignMonitor type that primarily deal with large number o
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by _dan 16y ago
ReturnPath's stuff is a bit more advanced than that. They give you a large list of email addresses to send to (consisting of a number of webmail clients and ISPs). They then pick these up and provide stats on which have and haven't been del
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by _dan 17y ago
Well, the really simple example is the string "postmaster". It is a perfectly legitimate email address, and almost always deliverable. But rarely something you want to actually accept.
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by _dan 17y ago
I wish people would stop posting that. Yes, that covers most (though not all) of the RFC definitions of what constitutes an email address, but in practice you only want to accept a tiny subset of those.
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by _dan 17y ago
> They desire harder and harder material This is true, I know only too well. I started my pornography career as a young boy, and my tastes have got more and more depraved over the years. Now I can only get off with pictures of complete
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by _dan 17y ago
You got me ;)
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by _dan 17y ago
The former. Even though it's 355 characters, at least it tells me it's a Google maps link. Which the shortened version doesn't. There are some situations where URL shortening is arguably useful. But there's absolutely no reason why "micro
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by _dan 17y ago
Apart from the obvious (webdev bar, firebug, adblock, etc), I find HTTPFox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6647 ) to be invaluable.
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by _dan 17y ago
That's not unreasonable. My point was, make them dead easy to find for those that want them. But yes, there's probably something in having one at the bottom. Not an easy one to test, though ;)
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by _dan 17y ago
This is a really good set of guidelines. Here are the three most effective things you need to do (in my experience) to get and maintain decent delivery rates: Remove your bounces. I cannot stress this enough. If you're sending using a homeb
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by _dan 17y ago
You make a good point, but it really depends on the content of the email. For stuff that's mostly text, without much in the way of interesting links, "open" rates can be deceptively low and you could potentially be losing active readers if
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by _dan 17y ago
I do agree, but I don't think it was undeserved. They had a chance to replace a device that was considerably less durable than advertised, but refused to do so. Judging by other reports in this thread (and other good things I've heard about
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by _dan 17y ago
I use a little perl script, because it works everywhere I need it (and I suck at shell scripting ;)) > cat `which title` #!/usr/bin/perl print( "\x1b", "]2;", join(' ', @ARGV), "\x7", );
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by _dan 17y ago
Heh. You'd be surprised at how blasé a lot of companies are about people's personal information. The vast majority of the corporate world still thinks it's perfectly reasonable to do their work by emailing excel files of personal data aroun
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by _dan 17y ago
I've found that trying to get candidates to write code on the spot is often more trouble than it's worth. It can take ages to cover any significant ground, and nerves are always going to affect people in different ways. If I find a promisin