Fri, 27 Apr 2007
Email, spam y alfajores
Sometimes I hate dealing with email. No, tot getting it, reading it, cleaning out my inbox, reading about GTD, and sending it, reading about how that Rubel guy does fancy tricks with his gmail/emails, and then sending more of my own. But the administration of it gets to me now and then. I've been an email admin (or co-admin) at an ISP. I've helped people set up domains and email accounts. I have my own accounts on at least 20-something different systems. I currently work at a market research software company that relies heavily on email administration and deliverability. It's part of my job to make sure our product complies with various rules and the email gets delivered (and to keep the complaint rates lowwwwww). Most of my friends are in the same boat. Well, maybe not *all* of them run various versions of spamassassin from their bedrooms, recommend/re-write akismet plugins or start their own companies to deal with spam and network security, or even start and run the ISP that hosts this site, but you get the drift. We're all a bunch of high-minded geeks and we know our stuff. But this week, I was trying to help my dad with a problem, and I was dealing with a similar problem at work.
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