Archive for March, 2007

Right call on voter list

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Rocky Mountain News - It’s moving voters from active to inactive status if they failed to vote in November or January and failed to respond to a mailing in February. The commission is legally supposed to do this in order to maintain the integrity of its voter list. …

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Yahoo Groups hit by massive duplicate e-mail bug

Friday, March 30th, 2007

CNET News - A major bug in Yahoo’s mailing list software has deluged in-boxes around the world with duplicate messages. Yahoo Groups confirmed the glitch in a brief statement on Wednesday evening. CNET News.com reader David H. reported in e-mail that the …

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Rhode Island introduces do-not-mail bill

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

dmnews.com - Like the other states, any company wishing to send unsolicited mail to Rhode Islanders would be required to buy an updated copy of the opt-out registry from the state and remove anyone on it from its own mailing list under the bill. Anyone who is on …

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Exceptional Hard-To-Find Wines

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Forbes - The California cabs, on the other hand, are usually sold directly to the consumer, or to those lucky enough to be on the winery’s mailing list. Colgin has 3,000 names waiting to get on their list, and at Harlan the wait for a prized bottle is …

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Windows Mail flaw could expose Vista users

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

ZDNet UK - An attacker could send an email with a malicious link that, when clicked on, would execute a program on the PC without warning, according to a description of the problem published on Friday on a widely read security mailing list called Full Disclosure

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call or write if you get unwanted mailing labels

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Canton Repository - Thank you for your suggestion to send them back and tell the charity to take your name off the mailing list. Another suggestion that I use is to call the 800 number that is usually provided to request that my name be removed. With no 800 number, you …

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Best Anti-Spam Method Is ‘White List’ Approach

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Ledger - The downside of this approach is that legitimate senders not on your list may find it a hassle to fill out the challenge and give up on e-mailing you. This is a problem mainly for business users who get desired e-mails from people they don’t know …

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Shakeup at Wikimedia

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

CNET News - Two leaders at the non-profit charitable organization Wikimedia have resigned from the group’s foundation separately, both in e-mails sent to the organization’s mailing list on Thursday. Wikimedia oversees a number of wiki-styled Web projects that …

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March 2007

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

ZDNet Blogs - Members of the general public are invited to join the mailing list via the APML.org website, forums or blog to provide feedback. I believe this is critical infrastructure work that needs to be supported. Having spent many years working in the info …

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Nitro Lube Announces Easy Phone Spinout Completed

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

MSN MoneyCentral - Day further stated, “We would like to keep our shareholders informed of our progress and, therefore, invite each shareholder to write Easy Phone, Inc. at info@theeasyphone.com to join the Easy Phone progress report mailing list. We will provide …

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