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 currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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