Comments for Mike Hillyer.com http://www.mikehillyer.com Gentlemen, Look and Behold! Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:15:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on Mail Filters Are Apolitical by Mike Hillyer http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/mail-filters-are-apolitical/#comment-59 Mike Hillyer Wed, 14 May 2008 20:19:19 +0000 http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/mail-filters-are-apolitical/#comment-59 Let's take a look at the first amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Are you implying that the US Congress has written a law preventing you from sending your email? The first amendment is there to keep the government from silencing its citizens. Comcast is not the government, it is a private corporation. This is not about the internet as a whole, it is about Comcast's email server. They exist to serve their customers, not those who want to send email to those customers and they will act in whatever way they see fit to serve those customers. Let’s take a look at the first amendment:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Are you implying that the US Congress has written a law preventing you from sending your email? The first amendment is there to keep the government from silencing its citizens. Comcast is not the government, it is a private corporation. This is not about the internet as a whole, it is about Comcast’s email server. They exist to serve their customers, not those who want to send email to those customers and they will act in whatever way they see fit to serve those customers.

]]> Comment on Mail Filters Are Apolitical by Ulf Erlingsson http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/mail-filters-are-apolitical/#comment-58 Ulf Erlingsson Wed, 14 May 2008 20:13:34 +0000 http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/mail-filters-are-apolitical/#comment-58 Today Comcast started blocking all emails we were sending that contained our domain name, lindorm.com, as either sender or recipient. After several hours of monitoring we called Comcast and by a strange coincidence the "error" "disappeared" miraculously within a miunute of explaining the problem. Funny how coincidences work, isn't it? My point, though, is that this INDEED IS A FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUE, as it affects the internet, which is a public space. What Comcast is doing is equivalent to blocking the voices of certain persons speaking in a town hall, but letting others be heard. It is not for them to decide which email I think is spam, that I have my own code for. Today Comcast started blocking all emails we were sending that contained our domain name, lindorm.com, as either sender or recipient. After several hours of monitoring we called Comcast and by a strange coincidence the “error” “disappeared” miraculously within a miunute of explaining the problem. Funny how coincidences work, isn’t it?

My point, though, is that this INDEED IS A FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUE, as it affects the internet, which is a public space. What Comcast is doing is equivalent to blocking the voices of certain persons speaking in a town hall, but letting others be heard. It is not for them to decide which email I think is spam, that I have my own code for.

]]> Comment on Mail Filters Are Apolitical by I am http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/mail-filters-are-apolitical/#comment-48 I am Thu, 08 May 2008 18:25:36 +0000 http://www.mikehillyer.com/e-mail-marketing/mail-filters-are-apolitical/#comment-48 >>Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. :))))))) >>Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

:)))))))

]]> Comment on Blogging from the 2008 MySQL Conference by Sheeri http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/blogging-from-the-2008-mysql-conference/#comment-42 Sheeri Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:20:24 +0000 http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/blogging-from-the-2008-mysql-conference/#comment-42 If you could tag that set as "mysqluc2008" they'll show up in the set that everyone else's does too.........(not to make you do more work or anything!) If you could tag that set as “mysqluc2008″ they’ll show up in the set that everyone else’s does too………(not to make you do more work or anything!)

]]> Comment on Best Swag Ever by Mike Hillyer http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/best-swag-ever/#comment-29 Mike Hillyer Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:35:28 +0000 http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/best-swag-ever/#comment-29 Bah, wasn't second prize *two* iPhones Sheeri? ;) Bah, wasn’t second prize *two* iPhones Sheeri? ;)

]]> Comment on Best Swag Ever by Sheeri http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/best-swag-ever/#comment-27 Sheeri Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:53:16 +0000 http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/best-swag-ever/#comment-27 Jeffrey -- sure, in that a semester of community college is just like any other name-brand college -- it's what you make of it, and if you're a slacker you can waste away at either just as easily. As well, like winning a free semester of community college, there will be folks who snark about it and undervalue it. Although I have to say I like my swag of winning an iPhone. Jeffrey — sure, in that a semester of community college is just like any other name-brand college — it’s what you make of it, and if you’re a slacker you can waste away at either just as easily.

As well, like winning a free semester of community college, there will be folks who snark about it and undervalue it.

Although I have to say I like my swag of winning an iPhone.

]]> Comment on Best Swag Ever by Jeffrey McManus http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/best-swag-ever/#comment-22 Jeffrey McManus Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:38:02 +0000 http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/best-swag-ever/#comment-22 Second prize: two Sun servers! :) Seriously, isn't winning a free Sun server sort of like winning a free semester of community college? Second prize: two Sun servers! :)

Seriously, isn’t winning a free Sun server sort of like winning a free semester of community college?

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