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January 19, 2001 |
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Letters & E-mail: Scott Rosenberg Responds to "Attacks without Facts, Who's Responsible?" |
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The entire premise of Douglas Thomas' column " Attacks without Facts, Who's Responsible ?" (in OJR 1/7/01) is that Salon.com published an article that was "deliberately inaccurate." His piece makes interesting reading if you accept that premise. But if you look at the facts you discover that what Thomas presents as a case of "deliberate inaccuracy" is in fact a simple matter of interpretation — and that the facts, if anything, are on Salon's side ... »
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January 19, 2001 |
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DMA to Compete on Trade Missions |
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The Direct Marketing Association is taking a trade mission to the United Kingdom and France in March -- a direct challenge to Bill McNutt's International Direct Marketing Consultants, which has run such missions for more than a decade. McNutt regularly takes a dozen or so DM executives to Europe and Latin America to meet local suppliers and talk to local experts in all DM areas, as well as to U.S. officials stationed there. Now, the DMA has set up a similar program of meetings and briefings. ... »
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January 18, 2001 |
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Hotmail trashes users’ e-mail |
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Ben Johnson has been sending e-mail for months from his Hotmail account. But he just discovered that some of his messages were diverted to the trash before arriving at their destination. Johnson, 24, is among the millions of customers caught in the crossfire of a battle over spam. For at least five months, some Hotmail customers’ outgoing mail has been blocked ... »
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January 18, 2001 |
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Hotmail spam filters block outgoing e-mail |
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Ben Johnson has been sending e-mail for months from his Hotmail account, but he just discovered that some of them were diverted to the trash before arriving at their destination. Johnson, 24, an information technology worker at a major Illinois hospital, is one of millions of Hotmail subscribers whose outgoing mail has been blocked for at least five months while customers have been caught in the crossfire of a battle over spamming. ... »
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January 18, 2001 |
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Number of employers monitoring e-mails increases |
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A survey conducted by consultant firm KPMG found that around 20% of employers are now secretly monitoring their employees e-mails without telling them. This equates to around one in five employers are actually breaking the law by gaining access to their staff e-mails without informing them. In October a new Lawful Business Practices Regulation, which is part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act came into force that allows employers the right to eavesdrop on private e-mails without their consent, however, correspondents had to be informed. ... »
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January 18, 2001 |
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Nebraska school e-mail project nets 115,000 responses |
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What began as an inspired geography lesson resulted in teaching some elementary school students volumes about the global reach of the Internet. Teacher John Street sent out 25 e-mails last spring asking recipients to forward the message to others and respond with their location so his class of 13 fourth-graders could track the responses on a map. ... »
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January 18, 2001 |
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Viral Marketing Effort Uses E-Mail Games |
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Flipside.com, Berkeley, CA, has unveiled 10 e-mail games as part of its viral marketing strategy to increase its registered user base. Developed in partnership with LetsPlay Inc., a developer of viral marketing services, the games can be accessed through a Web browser. Registered users play for tokens, or "flips," which can be redeemed for prizes. The company also said the games allow users to chat and play at the same time. ... »
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January 18, 2001 |
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DMA Kicks Off Shop-At-Home Publicity Campaign |
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The Direct Marketing Association began its 2001 Shop-At-Home Image Campaign publicity program yesterday. The program began in 1987 as a seasonal mailing sent to several hundred feature writers. Over the past 13 years the program has expanded to include year-round outreach to newspapers, magazines, television, radio and online news media. ... »
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January 17, 2001 |
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Official fined for e-mail violation |
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OLYMPIA — State Treasurer Mike Murphy has agreed to pay a $1,200 fine for illegally sending campaign-related e-mails to seven state employees' job computers during his fall re-election campaign. Murphy, a longtime Olympia Democrat who was just elected to his second term, was unrepentant Tuesday. Murphy said his actions were unwitting and declared that he had a First Amendment right to send the campaign-related e-mails. ... »
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January 17, 2001 |
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IP traffic hitting 300,000 e-mails per second |
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The London Internet Exchange (LINX), which handles around 90 percent of the UK's Internet data traffic, has reported that its e-mail traffic has topped the 5 gigabits per second (Gbps) mark.This equates to more than 300,000 e-mail messages a second, and is roughly three times the traffic flow that was present early in 2000 ... »
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