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Submission + - Mailing out Newsletters without getting blacklist

Submitted by

chesternerd

on Friday January 26, 2007 @08:36AM

chesternerd writes: "A client of mine that produces 3 daily e-newsletters, and plans to produce upwards of 8 per day, has about 1500 subscribers currently. They are sending out 1500 emails per day, and expect this number to grow to 5000 per day by the end of the year. What solutions exist to avoid getting their IP range blacklisted as a potential spammer? All clients receiving the newsletter have agreed in person, over the phone, to subscribe to the newsletter, so the emails are desired by the recipients. How do we avoid getting blacklisted?"

Submission + - Security Website Shut Down by Myspace

Submitted by HighWizard on Friday January 26, 2007 @08:34AM

HighWizard writes: MySpace demanded that GoDaddy pull the plug on Seclists.org, which hosts some 250,000 pages of mailing list archives and other resources, because a list of thousands of MySpace usernames and passwords was archived on the site. GoDaddy claims its customers own about 18 million domains.

GoDaddy complied. In a move that Seclists.org owner Fyodor Vaskovich said happened with no prior notice, the company deleted his domain name — causing his site to be effectively unreachable for about seven hours on Wednesday until he found out what was happening and removed the password list.

Submission + - What to Expect on a Business Trip?

Submitted by on Monday January 22, 2007 @11:17AM

An anonymous reader writes: Soon after graduating I was lucky enough to be hired by a small company where each employee has a direct and noticeable impact on the direction of the projects we take on. As a student I was never introduced to the formalities of office culture, and I've been struggling with the social strategies required by this environment. Recently a client requested a meeting to discuss a project, and several employees, including myself, were selected to travel out of town for the consult.

For those of us who are both new to this type of engagement and can list a computer as one of their best friends, what is expected of me? What clothes should I be buying for this (where should I buy them, and what should I expect to pay)? What exactly will my employer pay for while we're all over there? Frankly, as a programmer along for the consult, what should I expect and what will be expected of me outside of the actual meeting?

Submission + - Explaining short-lived jobs on a resume?

Submitted by n7ytd on Monday January 22, 2007 @09:08AM

n7ytd writes: Since taking a new job in 2006 and finding out it's not what I expected, I am spitting out resumes to find a new gig. I've been wondering how to explain the short time I've been in this job to prospective employers. Have fellow Slashdotters found this to be a challenge in the past, or it is par for the course and no big deal? As someone interviewing, would the 6-month position I've had with my current employer cause you concern?

Submission + - isoHunt back up

Submitted by

RandomLinguist

on Monday January 22, 2007 @03:34AM

RandomLinguist writes: "After an extended downtime and a move to Canada, isoHunt is back online and functional. They were cut off by their ISP on the 17th unexpectedly, likely due to **IA fears."

Submission + - Wikipedia links no longer help your Page Rank

Submitted by

Mrs. Grundy

on Monday January 22, 2007 @02:21AM

Mrs. Grundy writes: "Wikipedia has started automatically adding rel="NOFOLOW" to all external links in an effort to combat link spam. Since wikipedia pages are hip-deep in high page rank they attract the unsavory sort of character hoping to gain a little love from Google on their coattails. By making pages NOFOLOW they essentially deny conferring any page rank points from google and hopefully reduce the incentive to spam the pages with offtopic links. This topic has come up before and the community voted to remove the NOFOLLOW business in 2005. Will this move actually reduce link spam or is even the potential clickthrough valuable enough without the boost in Google's ranking? And how does the value of ranking sites based on links change as more and more popular sites start tagging (eh...labeling) their links NOFOLLOW?"

Submission + - Genetic Algorithms and Design

Submitted by

rafael_es_son

on Monday January 22, 2007 @01:37AM

rafael_es_son writes: "The application of a genetic algorithm, even when met with fitness function criteria as simple as the application of the golden-rule ratio, and a genome composed of rectangles, lines and circles, produces varied graphically and volumetrically interesting compositions. The modeling, implementation and evaluation of additional criteria, such as functional, contextual (existing natural and human-made landscape) and human factors (see "Four Story Limit" for an example) into more comprehensive fitness functions for product design -from toothbrushes to cities- appears to continue to be a promising line of research."

Submission + - Linus on why the kernel is "special"

Submitted by daria42 on Monday January 22, 2007 @12:07AM

daria42 writes: In this one minute video, Linus explains why the Linux kernel is "special". "I have always felt that the thing that makes the kernel special is it never does anything on its own ... It has no agenda. It is at the mercy of all the "real" programs that actually do something for the user," he says. "I try to see what are the issues that users have with programs and what are things that we in the kernel can help them do better," he said.

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