Oracle Spam, originally uploaded by blacknight. While I doubt this is Oracle's normal policy, they really do need to teach their staff how to market properly. Using email to help promote sales is a good idea, but the way that this is being done is incredibly bad and damages email marketing in general. So far today I have received 5 separate copies of an Oracle "offer" on my … [Read more...] about Oracle Ireland Spamming Everyone. How NOT To Use Email Marketing
Scaremongering Stupidity
At some time in the last couple of months an Irish website got hacked and its member database was stolen. The database contained email addresses and the associated passwords to login to the website. The list of email addresses and these passwords was published on a website which has since been taken offline (though you could find it in Google's cache as recently as 48 hours … [Read more...] about Scaremongering Stupidity
Logging Email From PHP Scripts
This is more a note for myself than anything else ...By default a lot of php scripts will send emails that appear as coming from the Apache user, which makes tracking down a rogue script really annoying and time-consuming.You end up with entries in the mail logs similar to this one:Apr 27 18:22:29 servername postfix/qmgr[23581]: 0F53421C1FA: … [Read more...] about Logging Email From PHP Scripts
Irish Political Party Plagiarise BBC But Think They’re Cool
The BBC have a serious online presence which probably costs them a fortune to maintain every year.None of the Irish political parties have an online presence that comes anywhere near it (and you wouldn't really expect them to either... )But when an Irish political party blatantly rips off the BBC's design and thinks they can get away with it, what kind of message does that … [Read more...] about Irish Political Party Plagiarise BBC But Think They’re Cool
Before You Hit Send
I send and receive a lot of email (I've mentioned this more than once in the past).In order for an email to catch my attention it needs to be engaging at some level. It doesn't need to be an artistic masterpiece, but something clear and engaging. Yet again today I got an email which was the exact opposite of this...To start with the subject line was a disaster. Starting the … [Read more...] about Before You Hit Send