Comments on: Is FeedBurner Bad For Your Email? http://successcreeations.com/136/is-feedburner-bad-for-your-email/ Guiding Your Business to Increased Income though Effective New Media Systems Online Tue, 22 May 2012 19:43:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Chris http://successcreeations.com/136/is-feedburner-bad-for-your-email/#comment-3866 Chris Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:19:20 +0000 http://successcreeations.com/2007/02/20/is-feedburner-bad-for-your-email/#comment-3866 Hey Jake! Thanks for responding. I've been very resistant to ditching the headline animator because I like it so much. (I haven't even gotten rid of it yet.) I'm with Dawud that it stinks that us legitimate folks are getting penalized because spammers are so, well..., evil. When I was having trouble just now and then I could live with it. But in the last 24 hours I know of 6 different emails to different folks that didn't get delivered. One was to a Gmail account, one to an MSN account, two were to BellSouth accounts, and two were to different corporate email accounts. If all these folks, most of whom I correspond with regularly, have servers that are flagging me as spam with the gif, I'm afraid I gotta let it go. It stinks. But what choice do I have? Hey Jake! Thanks for responding. I’ve been very resistant to ditching the headline animator because I like it so much. (I haven’t even gotten rid of it yet.)

I’m with Dawud that it stinks that us legitimate folks are getting penalized because spammers are so, well…, evil.

When I was having trouble just now and then I could live with it.

But in the last 24 hours I know of 6 different emails to different folks that didn’t get delivered. One was to a Gmail account, one to an MSN account, two were to BellSouth accounts, and two were to different corporate email accounts.

If all these folks, most of whom I correspond with regularly, have servers that are flagging me as spam with the gif, I’m afraid I gotta let it go.

It stinks. But what choice do I have?

]]> By: Dawud Miracle http://successcreeations.com/136/is-feedburner-bad-for-your-email/#comment-3864 Dawud Miracle Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:43:43 +0000 http://successcreeations.com/2007/02/20/is-feedburner-bad-for-your-email/#comment-3864 This is pretty much the reason I've yet to install FeedBurner’s Headline Animator. I knew that I'd have the same experience. We can thank all the spammers out there for making it a bit more unfriendly for us legitimate users. This is pretty much the reason I’ve yet to install FeedBurner’s Headline Animator. I knew that I’d have the same experience. We can thank all the spammers out there for making it a bit more unfriendly for us legitimate users.

]]> By: Jake Parrillo http://successcreeations.com/136/is-feedburner-bad-for-your-email/#comment-3862 Jake Parrillo Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:42:46 +0000 http://successcreeations.com/2007/02/20/is-feedburner-bad-for-your-email/#comment-3862 Hey Chris, Sorry to hear that you're having trouble with our Headline Animator. I use it everyday and I don't have much trouble. The thing with spam filters is that everyone is a bit different. Ff it's bayesian (like Gmail), and they've marked as spam a bunch of emails with GIFs in them, it could start thinking email msgs with GIFs are spam. We want to make sure that we aren't hindering your delivery of your email. We're always looking for feedback, so don't ever hesitate to give us a shout at publishers@feedburner.com. Jake Parrillo Publisher Services Team FeedBurner Hey Chris,

Sorry to hear that you’re having trouble with our Headline Animator. I use it everyday and I don’t have much trouble. The thing with spam filters is that everyone is a bit different. Ff it’s bayesian (like Gmail), and they’ve marked as spam a bunch of emails with GIFs in them, it could start thinking email msgs with GIFs are spam.

We want to make sure that we aren’t hindering your delivery of your email. We’re always looking for feedback, so don’t ever hesitate to give us a shout at publishers@feedburner.com.

Jake Parrillo
Publisher Services Team
FeedBurner

]]> By: Chris http://successcreeations.com/136/is-feedburner-bad-for-your-email/#comment-3858 Chris Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:00:35 +0000 http://successcreeations.com/2007/02/20/is-feedburner-bad-for-your-email/#comment-3858 But it's only 1 little gif. <i>[he protested smoothly like the waiter to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Creosote" rel="nofollow">Mr. Creosote</a>]</i> Sounds like you might appreciate this <a href="http://www.leo.org/information/freizeit/fun/cars.html" rel="nofollow">call center humor</a>, Patrick. :lol: Can't much disagree with anything you said, either. But it’s only 1 little gif. [he protested smoothly like the waiter to Mr. Creosote]

Sounds like you might appreciate this call center humor, Patrick. :lol:

Can’t much disagree with anything you said, either.

]]> By: Patrick http://successcreeations.com/136/is-feedburner-bad-for-your-email/#comment-3856 Patrick Tue, 20 Feb 2007 13:46:31 +0000 http://successcreeations.com/2007/02/20/is-feedburner-bad-for-your-email/#comment-3856 Well I didn't even get that in my RSS reader but I think this is a case of using e-mail for something it was not really intended for. Truthfully it's not your fault as e-mail standards in their current form have not really caught up well with the rest of the Internet. In my opinion e-mail needs to be totally re-engineered. It not really designed for sending large attachments but people use it for that anyway, it's not secure and one of the biggest security holes out there. Sorry to go on a rant but this is a big beef of mine as I the thing my customers complain about the most is e-mail and it usually boils down to users using it as an ftp or web browser application. I think what you are running into is e-mail programs are trying rig their small economy car as a secure truck/van when we really should be using a new vehicle instead old one that has been "rigged up". If I had it my way I would incorporate secure ftp (SFTP or something similiar) into the e-mail program so for instance if I sent a file over a certain size it would get dumped into a folder on my e-mail/ftp server and send the link to download it instead of the file to the receiver of the message instead of clogging up their inbox. I'd also make authentication of messages required and none of this using third party stuff that "no one" ever uses. I'd also make e-mail newsletters a thing of the past and incorporate RSS more deeply into the system. it's interesting how web browsers have jumped so far hard of e-mail clients. Well I didn’t even get that in my RSS reader but I think this is a case of using e-mail for something it was not really intended for. Truthfully it’s not your fault as e-mail standards in their current form have not really caught up well with the rest of the Internet. In my opinion e-mail needs to be totally re-engineered. It not really designed for sending large attachments but people use it for that anyway, it’s not secure and one of the biggest security holes out there. Sorry to go on a rant but this is a big beef of mine as I the thing my customers complain about the most is e-mail and it usually boils down to users using it as an ftp or web browser application.

I think what you are running into is e-mail programs are trying rig their small economy car as a secure truck/van when we really should be using a new vehicle instead old one that has been “rigged up”.

If I had it my way I would incorporate secure ftp (SFTP or something similiar) into the e-mail program so for instance if I sent a file over a certain size it would get dumped into a folder on my e-mail/ftp server and send the link to download it instead of the file to the receiver of the message instead of clogging up their inbox. I’d also make authentication of messages required and none of this using third party stuff that “no one” ever uses. I’d also make e-mail newsletters a thing of the past and incorporate RSS more deeply into the system.

it’s interesting how web browsers have jumped so far hard of e-mail clients.

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