Tip for entrepreneurs

[prog]

Don't send business email after two beers.

I suppose I could have done worse than a serious email with the subject line "Fwd: Foo", but still. (And then I dug myself deeper by sending out a second mail but using my informal From: address which probably means it will just get caught in everyone's spam filters.)

Speaking of (spam filters), the accounting firm we want to work with took an extra week to get back to us -- in fact, the amount of time it took for me to call them and ask what was up -- because my "OK, let's work together, here is all our information" mail got eaten by their own spam filter. Dear lord.

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[rserocki.livejournal.com]

It didn't get caught in my spam filter.

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

My old 'granicus' account -- an e-mail account set up by a friend who got a static 'business' IP address and uses it to host his own Linux server -- has become less and less useful for professional applications because more and more spam filters seem to use 'lists of dynamic IPs' and block anything from those lists. Despite being a static IP, granicus is listed as a dynamic IP on some of those lists.

There doesn't appear to be any way to fix this because nobody wants to admit they're wrong.

[keimel.livejournal.com]

I have seen this problem first hand. I had a problem with a GoDaddy customer. Godaddy told me "you're sending mail but not listening on port 25 for mail! You are evil!" I told them, "Of course I don't, that'd encourage spam" I then made the server listen on port 25 and they said "You're a dynamic IP!" I said "I can show you the bill that says I pay $10/mo for a static IP" and they said "No, screw you, go home. " "But I am home, that's your problem with me... "

Oh, but I'm just ranting.

At least I have other mail servers that are not in reported dynamic pools that I can relay through. I would have thought that my "Hey, look, I'm human and sending responses" would indicate to them that if I were a real spammer, I wouldn't have wasted the time, but just proceded to the next zombied host I had available to me.

Oh damn, I'm still ranting ;)

[keimel.livejournal.com]

Don't send business email after two beers.


But you're a lightweight... I'd imagine you prefer to send your business email after two coffees instead. ;)