Box of Meat

Welcome to Box of Meat!

Welcome to Box of Meat, a cooperative linkblog about email technology, spam prevention, “deliverability” (which is not a real word), and so forth. As you can see, I’ve already posted a few links to get things started.

This tumblog isn’t called “Box of Meat” because Hormel’s SPAM product is sold in a metal box. Jokes about spam were old and tired in 1999, possibly earlier. Nobody has thought up a new one in nearly a decade. Please, give it up already.

No, instead it’s a reference to a surprising gift/bribe I received a few years ago, while working for one of the largest ISPs in the entire freakin’ world. Apparently, some marketer thought that sending me a big box of meat would get their mail delivered to the inboxes of my users. They were wrong, of course — it had no effect, positive or negative — but I’ve had fun telling the story ever since.

I’m not the only person telling these stories, however; there are a few other contributors to Box of Meat, and they’ll introduce themselves if they feel like it.

J.D. Falk, primary instigator of Box of Meat