ALA also has a new election domain name. It is now 2006election@alavote.org.
Yes, Jessamyn’s points are all completely valid to which I point out another problem with the only other sentence in that paragraph:
This change to a dot.org from a dot.net will make it less likely that any ballots will be incorrectly identified as spam.
Huh?! Sorry folks, but spam filters today are hardly considering top level domains (TLDs) as the sole arbiter of whether or not an e-mail is spam. Saying that a .net address is more likely to be spam over a .org is like saying that just because there’s a ~ in the URL, it must be a personal site.
First ALA fails on a technical issue, then they fail on a logic issue. Is anyone proofreading these press releases?
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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