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What’s in Store for Hawaii in 2050?
As reported elsewhere in this issue of Magilla Marketing, Hawaii legislators reportedly decided the state
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Is There Anything Spam Isn’t Responsible For?
Well, we finally found the idiots who respond to spam. They’re apparently getting penis operations.
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SPF Developer Predicts Whitelist-Only E-mail
Tech Web site CircleID.com ran a blog post by Meng Wong, best known as the lead developer of e-mail authentication scheme SPF, in which Wong predicts eliminating phishing will require e-mail box providers to move to a whitelist-only model:
“Just so you know where I’m coming from, the foremost concern in my mind is this: The final solution to the phishing problem requires that people use a whitelist-only, default-deny paradigm for e-mail.
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Petco Tests Customer-Written Product Reviews in E-mail
In what is believed to be industry first, Petco Animal Supplies is testing to see if including customer-written product reviews in its outbound e-mail campaigns boosts conversion-to-sale rates.
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Another Nail in Legal, Adult E-Mail’s Coffin; Committee Switcharoo Derails Lobbying
The Georgia state Senate last week took another step toward helping wipe legal, adult content out of the e-mail marketplace by passing The Georgia Child, Family and School Communications Protection Act.
The bill
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Epsilon Buying DoubleClick E-mail
Alliance Data Systems Corp. has announced that its Epsilon unit will acquire DoubleClick E-mail solutions for $90 million.
The deal will give Epsilon a stronger presence in the retail, travel, publishing and consumer-packaged-goods markets. It will also give Epsilon 400 more clients, such as J. Crew, Patagonia, Unilever and Proctor & Gamble.
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Net-Nannies Go Coo-Coo over Goodmail
For a company that no one heard of until recently, Goodmail sure was able to stir up the Net Nannies with its announcement that AOL was going to start using its certified e-mail service and charge bulk mailers for guaranteed delivery of their blasts with the graphics and links intact.
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A Levelheaded Assessment of AOL-Goodmail Deal
With all the empty-headed, alarmist crap that was published last week about the AOL-Goodmail announcement, it was refreshing to run across a thoughtful assessment of the news from permission-marketing guru Seth Godin on his blog:
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