If you want to broadcast a message to multiple email addresses, you should use a dedicated mail list application. These days, there are a number of dedicated mail list scripts which can be downloaded for free. The only thing is that you need to have access to a web server to install a mail list [...]
What makes an internet petition effective?
Posted on March 1, 2011 // Leave a Comment
Sometime around April two years ago, a Filipino family based in Sydney was at risk of being removed from Australia by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship when the family’s application for permanent residence was denied even if the family had stayed in Australia for almost 20 years. In the wake of that impending deportation, [...]
ISP network PLDT getting worse
Posted on December 13, 2010 // 3 Comments
The Philippines’ premier ISP network, pldt.com.ph, has improved its position – in a worst kind of way. By not resolving the spam issues raised against it, PLDT has moved from spot #10 to spot #8 in the Spamhaus Project’s World’s Worst Spam Support ISPs roster. As at 13 December 2010, PLDT has 38 spam issues [...]
PLDT joins World’s Top 10 Worst ISPs
Posted on November 28, 2010 // 8 Comments
The latest report on the world’s worst spam problem networks includes pldt.com.ph, the domain name of the Philippines’ telecommunications company PLDT. The report, released by the Spamhaus Project, has listed 38 unresolved spam issues against pldt.com.ph which positioned it as the world’s number 10 worst spam support network. The Spamhaus Project is a Geneva- and [...]
Confession of a “Postie” user
Posted on September 18, 2010 // 2 Comments
When doing my experimental WP-hosted blogs, it was a delight using the plugin built into WordPress.com which allows me to update my blogs using emails. I found the WP plugin very handy, in fact a necessity, considering that most of the time, I am on the road. I tried using that to my self-hosted WP [...]
Database character sets and WordPress
Posted on January 6, 2010 // 1 Comment
We recently upgraded the MySql installation in our emanilapoetry website which is using WordPress 2.8+ install. The upgrade somehow caused a mismatch in the character sets between WordPress and the database tables, the former using a default character set “utf8″ and the latter using “latin1.” When our technical people tried using WordPress’ default character set [...]
