Bi-weekly newsletter for young families in Seattle, SF, and San Diego.

Quoted: DailyCandy is the insider's guide to what's new and cool -- up-and-coming fashion designers, sample sales, restaurants, useful services and must-have products.

Handy wizard for making SPF records for your DNS (indentifies your authentic mail servers).

Quoted: Using the Sender ID Framework to help fight spam and phishing

I find it amazing that the paid subscription is $45/year - as compared to the free advertising supported one.

a) I can't believe he makes anything like $45/subscriber for the ad supported version.
b) The paid version is so expensive, I can't see people opting in to it given the advertisements are so subtle.

Game playing by email.

Play Quoridor over email!

This is the culprit in our email from StartPad having disclosed BCC fields in our outgoing mail.

Instructions on how to set up your dns SPF record to improve email delivery and prevent forged email from your domain.

Quoted: include:aspmx.googlemail.com

Google has some nice guidelines on email deliverability. Making sure you have an SPF record to validate your domain is important.

We're even getting REPLIES from emails getting filed as spam (one problem is our startpad.org domain is not where we read our mail FROM - it's just forwarding email to another email address). This means that we do not build up a contact list or history of senders to whom we send mail - so GMail has very little to go on in applying it's spam filtering.

I'd really rather these forwarding accounts do NO spam filtering, and forward everything on to be filtered in the final destination account.

Quoted: We've received inquiries from bulk senders who'd like more information on best practices to ensure that their mail is delivered to Gmail users. The way Gmail classifies spam depend