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Yes, I do have various Google alerts set up watching for food-related spam articles. Or SPAM, in this case! Without those alerts, I wouldn’t have stumbled across this deliciously described spam fried rice recipe courtesy of the Recipe Critic. A simple combination of pan-fried spam, fluffy rice, eggs, and veggies, it seems very much like your typical fried rice recipe, but the addition of the diced, salty SPAM luncheon meat kicks things up a notch and this one is going on my “gotta try this” list immediately. Spam Fried Rice Recipe | The Recipe Critic
If you’re suffering from DMARC-related malaise, perhaps this will help you forget about it for a few minutes. For absolutely no useful business reason, I share with you a cover of Feel Good Inc. (originally performed by Gorillaz) being played on a (number of) Stylophones. This makes me smile and I hope it does the same for you. Thanks, maromaro1337, whoever you are!
It all starts with a list of top domains. Top ten million, in this case. Of those top, around 12% of them have published a DMARC record. Of those, which ones have a BIMI record in place? That’s what this data shows. That means that it’s a percentage of a percentage of an arbitrary measure of “top domains.” But hey, we can still have fun with this — sort of questionable data set, so let’s do that! BIMI logo adoption is growing in this data set. Perhaps not exploding like gangbusters, but it is still good to see it growing, from 1.26% of top domains up to 1.38%. Today, that’s nearly 17,000 domains (of that top 10 million) that have published a BIMI record. From June through December 2023, the rate at which BIMI-publishing domain owners also implemented a Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) rose from around 10% to around 14%.
It’s Friday! Why don’t we have a little bit of fun today? Here’s the first in a (maybe) regular series of me talking to interesting people about stuff. Fun stuff, boring stuff. Work stuff, silly stuff. Different stuff. Let’s call it: Spam Resource Spotlight. I hope you’ll enjoy it! With ten years experience in the email marketing, deliverability and compliance space, my friend Alison Gootee (who is not a photographer based in Brooklyn and New Orleans) is somebody that you should consider an expert. Currently she’s a ‘spam stopper, best practices advocate, and general know-it-all’ for a large email and marketing automation provider Hey, Alison! Thanks for taking the time to talk to me today! Can you tell me how you came to get started in this wacky world of deliverability? Hey Al! Thank you so much for inviting me! I have been a long-time admirer of yours, and it’s
It’s time for some more fun with data! How broadly has DMARC been adopted? It’s a complex question and the answer is “it depends.” Many good senders have already implemented it — but based on Yahoo and Google pushing for it this year, it has clearly not been adopted widely enough for it to be considered a “must have” for every domain that sends mail. (And let’s not forget about domains that don’t send mail.) Every month, I take a peek at the top 10 million domains, logging various bits of DNS so that I can do later analysis. One of those data bits is: Does this domain have a DMARC record? Surprisingly, you can’t assume that the answer is yes. Though you can see that DMARC adoption is slowly nudging upward, only around 1.23 million domains (out of the top ten million) have a DMARC record in play. Now…this
Today’s guest post is comes courtesy of Compliance and Deliverability Enablement expert Alison Gootee, who reminds us of the reason for the (email) season. Take it away, Alison! In the USA, at least, this week is widely considered to be a springboard to the year-end holiday season. Retailers will be hustling to meet or exceed their projected revenue goals while, conveniently, many of their customers will begin their pursuit of the perfect gifts for their family and friends (and coworkers, and mail carriers, and refuse collectors, and kids’ teachers, and maaaaybe a little something for themselves, too). The convergence of retailers’ and consumers’ goals means that inboxes will soon be more stuffed than a Thanksgiving turkey (or a Thanksgiving Ali(ver)son for that matter). If your open rates decline over the next couple of weeks, don’t panic! In addition to the increased inbox competition, plenty of people will also be busy with
For absolutely no good reason at all, here’s the video for the song “Sabotage” from the Beastie Boys. This is a single from their 1994 album, “Ill Communication” with an absolutely bonkers Spike Jonez-directed video. Enjoy.
German Youtuber Matthias Schwarzer takes us on a trip to the birthplace of one of the most famous photos of all time. One we’ve all seen a billion times, but never really thought much about: The photo that became the default desktop background image in Windows XP. Remember that meadow? Of course you do. We all do. Where was it, how did the photo come to be, and what does it look like now? Matthias explains.
There’s a guy named Jason Pargin (originally writing under a pseudonym) who wrote a book back in 2007 called “John Dies at the End.” I don’t know how to describe it — “comic horror” is a label I’ve seen applied to it, and I guess that works as well as any other. It’s about a couple of guys who live in a dying rust belt down and end up dealing with some, well, weird stuff. Monsters and mayhem in a mundane setting, maybe?Since then there have been more books in the series: This Book is Full of Spiders, What the Hell Did I Just Read, and the most recent one, which I just finished a week ago, called If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe (purchase link here).If you’re looking for something somewhere between supernatural and sci fi, comedy and horror — with protagonists just trying to pay the
This one is painful. Please allow me to share this pain with you: A Ray Charles/Nickleback mashup. Sure, why not. I believe the technical term is “abomination.”