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Home 06 Feb 2007 Is it too hard to get e-mail delivered? Email In the latest round of AOL conspiracy nonsense, a friend commented that getting mail delivered is too hard. That may be true, but I'm wondering if the problem isn't at least as much that people's expectations are unrealistic, due as always to the way that computers seduce us into analogical thinking that doesn't work. See more ... posted at: 11:52 :: permanent link to this entry :: 1 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/toohard.trackback 05 Feb 2007 Postini sends out Paypal phishes Email Yes, that's what I said. And if you don't believe me, here it is, exactly as received except for snipping out a few locally added headers that identify the address they sent it to, an often scraped address that gets a mountain of spam. See more ... posted at: 14:16 :: permanent link to this entry :: 19 comments Trackback link is http://weblog.johnlevine.com/Email/postini.trackback

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