Again, Sorry for the Light Blogging

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Sorry I've been out of action recently. Mostly, it's because we're busy as hell here at the office. The last few weeks have been crazy, with at least three pitches going on at any given time. The end of this week and the beginning of next week are critical times for us, pitch-wise, so things might continue to be light here for a bit. I also haven't been blogging because I've been absolutely dumbfounded. Bush actually admitted to a mistake this week. And John Roberts actually said something I agreed with during his confirmation hearings (The "umpire analogy").

Hell didn't freeze over, the earth wasn't knocked off its axis, the dead didn't rise from the grave. But I'm a little weirded out.

Spam Is Spam Is Spam

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I've started labeling newsletters (even ones supposedly "relevant" to my industry) that I've been force-subscribed to as spam within Cloudmark's SpamNet. Especially if the newsletter publisher absolutely refuses to unsubscribe me. I wish more people would use P2P solutions for keeping spam out of their inboxes. One of the biggest differences between P2P solutions and others is that it democratizes the process of determining whether or not a sender is a spammer. I think that makes the penalties for force-subscribing people to newsletters much more strict - if enough people decide that the newsletter publisher isn't playing by the rules, the newsletter isn't received by anyone who subscribes to the P2P tool. And getting unblocked isn't as simple as calling some ISP or blacklist provider and getting whitelisted again - it will be re-building reputation to the point at which a majority of P2P users whitelist a publisher.