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| Thursday, June 19, 2003 |
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Stuff I can't find 
| | I've got emails that say this is cool. Also this. Hell, I dunno. |
Sturm und Blog
| | I'm sitting on the deck here, barely sheltered from a tropical torrent,as a thunderstorm rolls through. It's a little bit scary and thoroughly wonderful. I'd show visuals, but I'm in dial-up hell so... O well... |
Blogalong
| | Natually, the Times sends me link love on an off day. Sez here we've had a little over 1100 visits today. That's about 1/100th of what Andrew Sullivan gets, isn't it? |
| | Jeff wonders about how many hits click in from where. You can do more checking here. I'm heading back out to the beach with the kid. Low tide beckons. |
Presumspam
| | So I get an e-spam from Convedia this morning. I call it spam because I didn't ask for it. At the bottom is an unsubscribe link. It takes me to a page that says |
| | Unsubscribe
You have been successfully unsubscribed from the list "Convedia Media/Analysts". If you'd like to be removed from all Topica Email Publisher lists, please click here. |
| | Looks to me like Topica is in the semi-clean opt-out spam business. Here's the FAQ. |
| | I don't begrudge Topica making a living. But I do begrudge Convedia for taking advantage of "subscribers" who aren't. |
| | Of course, it's wise to remember that opting out of spam emails is generally a bad idea since it only informs the spammers that your address is a real target. I am sure Topica and Convedia, as Real Companies, are not examples of those cases. (Note: Dick disagrees.) |
| | [Later...] I now recall that Convedia is a company Drazen Pantic told me about (and I mentioned positively in a piece due to come out in the September Linux Journal). I kinda doubt that I checked off a Yes to any question about getting unsolicited company information when I visited the company site. Though perhaps I did. Generally I avoid saying yes to anything that might possibly send unwanted emails. |
| | Hell, maybe I'm just cranky after watching hundreds of unwanted emails oozing down over a flaky dial-up line. |
| | And I will be installing SpamAssassin at the new server one of these days. |
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