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  • Utah Tries End Run in Registry Defense

    A Utah Republican is trying to get a federal bill passed that would kill efforts by marketers and others to overturn the state

  • Keep Mailing Those Gmail Addresses: Return Path

    According to Return Path, not only is Google’s contextual ad program not adversely affecting advertisers, Gmail address holders respond better than subscribers to other services.

  • Project Aims to Clean Spam Data, Help Filters

    A volunteer project is underway that has the potential to help spam filters avoid false positives, where anti-spam software mistakenly tags wanted e-mail as spam.

    Dubbed “Spam or Ham,” the project asks volunteers to look at as many of a series of random e-mails as they want, and label each as either spam—unsolicited e-mail—or ham—wanted e-mail.

  • Stupid Catalog Watch: Book Targets Humorless Nags

    The great national fret over America

  • You’re Not as Funny as You Think

    A series of five studies by four business school professors from New York University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, asked a bunch of people to e-mail funny and sarcastic phrases to one another and predict whether the messages

  • Togony.com Puts Small Restaurants On Web

    Many large chain eateries take good advantage of the promotional opportunities available online. But what if local restaurants could do this too?

  • Preserving paper collectibles is in the bag for Randolph, MA business

    Casual comic book enthusiasts read their periodicals and then toss them on the coffee table. Would a serious collector do that? Would Superman leave a chunk of kryptonite lying around the Fortress of Solitude? They turn to businesses like Bill Cole Enterprises, which sells Mylar sleeves, backing boards and other preservation supplies for paper collectibles like money, magazines, and yes, funny books.

  • An American-Style DM Success Story

    Early in June, we were looking for a Fourth of July flag to hang on the front porch. We searched the SRDS mailing list directory (www.srds.com) to buy from a company that sells flags by mail, and that has a mailing list for rent.

  • Tips & Teasers

    * The State of West Virginia has teamed with the nonprofit group Mission West Virginia to launch a new program providing training in e-commerce applications for small business and entrepreneurs throughout the state. Four hundred and fifty participants …

  • Sports Collectible Site Powers up Major League Search

    Very often, people outgrow the things that seemed crucially important when they were kids: building models, collecting baseball cards, riding horses. Putting aside the question of whether that