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'Email marketing' versus outright email spam

Wandering Thoughts | Jan. 4, 2009, 12:18 a.m. | Original

While I think that the end effects are the same ,I think that there is a conceptual difference between what gets called'email marketing' and outright email spam, and that this differenceinfluences how the people who originate 'email marketing' think aboutit.

To put it one way, what I call 'email marketing' at least attemptsto be the logical extension of physical mail marketing; you gatherthe addresses of your customers, of business cards dropped into yourgiveaway draws at tradeshows, of people who have sent

讀中文，所為何事？

tswtsw | Jan. 3, 2009, 11:04 p.m. | Original

（按：這是星島一個月前的文章，與刊出的版本有微妙分別。其實我根本只想寫陳雲，但編輯說，因為文章主要由別份報紙的專欄文章合成，基於商業理由是不會推介的。哦。想想陳雲，我心領神會。但稿遲交了，已無時間再改

好好過生活--談卓韻芝及《走光再走光》

silencemo | Jan. 3, 2009, 6:19 p.m. | Original

書名：走光再走光
作者：卓韻芝
出版：明窗出版社　2008年12月

第一次讀卓韻芝的文集，算起來已經有七八年了，那本書名叫《生活全套》，真嚇人一跳，原來已經是那麼久之前的事，怎麼那種閱讀的喜悅卻恍如昨天？別怪

Some system APIs like os.environ and sys.argv can also presentproblems when the bytes made available by the system is notinterpretable using the default encoding. Setting the LANG variableand rerunning the program is probably the best approach.

Since the release notes are not explicit, let me fill them in