Geekness Con't
Jan. 31st, 2009 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisAccording to my flight monitor, I've just crossed the border from Utah to Nevada at 497 mph at 38,120 feet.
DC Diamond Circulate has an update to send to registrants (new newsletter, survey for kosher meals, etc.). While I have a list of 600 emails, our ISP would identify us as a spammer if we were to email out the entire lot at once. Thus, we've broken up the list into six batches of 100, with no more than 200 messages to be sent per hour.
Last night before going to square dancing, I sent the email update to the first two lists. Before going to bed, I sent the next two. From my airline seat 19A, I have successfully downloaded Thunderbird to my laptop, configured it appropriately to use my "registrar at dcdc2009.org" account, access a copy of the original notice from my gmail.com account and use authenticated SMTP to send the last batch via my Earthlink DSL provider. I've also emailed the minutes of our Jan 8 convention planning meeting to the DC Lambda Squares board while crossing the border from Nevada to California. Total score!
OMG, I love living in a connected world!
On a side note, I didn't get the rest of the snail-mail newsletters printed & sent before I had to leave home. My lovely new laser printer ran out of toner and while I have ordered replacement cartridges, they haven't arrived yet. Still, I have the PDF file, the remaining envelope labels and a small stack of envelopes so if I can find an available laser printer somewhere in San Francisco which can print dual-sided, I can get these tossed into the mail while I'm there.
DC Diamond Circulate has an update to send to registrants (new newsletter, survey for kosher meals, etc.). While I have a list of 600 emails, our ISP would identify us as a spammer if we were to email out the entire lot at once. Thus, we've broken up the list into six batches of 100, with no more than 200 messages to be sent per hour.
Last night before going to square dancing, I sent the email update to the first two lists. Before going to bed, I sent the next two. From my airline seat 19A, I have successfully downloaded Thunderbird to my laptop, configured it appropriately to use my "registrar at dcdc2009.org" account, access a copy of the original notice from my gmail.com account and use authenticated SMTP to send the last batch via my Earthlink DSL provider. I've also emailed the minutes of our Jan 8 convention planning meeting to the DC Lambda Squares board while crossing the border from Nevada to California. Total score!
OMG, I love living in a connected world!
On a side note, I didn't get the rest of the snail-mail newsletters printed & sent before I had to leave home. My lovely new laser printer ran out of toner and while I have ordered replacement cartridges, they haven't arrived yet. Still, I have the PDF file, the remaining envelope labels and a small stack of envelopes so if I can find an available laser printer somewhere in San Francisco which can print dual-sided, I can get these tossed into the mail while I'm there.
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Date: 2009-02-01 01:59 am (UTC)