Over at the Exacttarget blog, there is a guest post up from Annalivia who handles much of the sender support (and about 15 million other things) at AOL.
On the nights before Christmas…
when the relays are groaning under the loads
and ISP admins start to turn into toads
they tear out their hair and cry in despair
“why’s all this mail coming out of thin air?”
Head over to read the whole thing.
Al has a guest post up from an ISP rep (now universally referred to as Barry) about senders contacting ISPs. It lists things senders do that Barry Don’t Like.
Listen to Barry.
There are also comments from various other Barrys in the comments. Those are worth reading, too.
This press release has been discussed in a lot of groups and sites I read. One of my favorite comments comes from one of the filter developers at a large ISP. He was asked “does the overuse/misuse of the this-is-spam button significantly affect the ability to do your job?” His response, reposted with permission,
Read MoreAOL announced today they are launching a postmaster blog http://journals.aol.com/pmtjournal/blog/
I’ll be updating the blogroll, too. I’ve been checking out some new delivery / marketing blogs the last few weeks.