Grant Laird, Jr. Blog

How to unsubscribe your email address from any mailing list and how to handle with spam issue.

Over years, I’ve maintained Deaf Network mailing list and few others. It has been rapidly growing big in past couple of years as deaf community become more comfortable with it.

Unfortunately, many people still delete (for any reasons) their email addresses frequently without letting mailing list owner. It is not a problem but it gave us headache to clean up all those no good email addresses. It was pretty much common these days.

You usually can find subscription info (how to unsubscribe, etc.) it at bottom of the email.

Spam is another story.

It is nightmare. Anybody have right to click “SPAM” button from their email service such as AOL, Yahoo, etc. It will report to them then they will give mailing list owner or hosting provider warning email then they may blacklist us.

Of course we don’t want it but a lot of people continued doing it anyway. They did not even try to unsubscribe themselves then we have no choice but remove their email address manually and move it to our personal blacklist.

Be courtesy, please unsubscribe when possible. If you cannot find it, email to owner personally and request to remove from list. They will be happy to remove it with no questions asked. It applies to all kind of mailing list including Yahoo Groups, private mailing list, etc.

If they get tired of too many emails, you can always use RSS Reader – some of them do support it.

Of course, you can spam it if they continued ignore your request.

The more I’ve done vblog for my blogsite; I’ve learned few things.

Let’s talk little about Google Video and YouTube accounts. Basically, I like both programs – no questions about it. I think Google Video display looks little clearer on all of my videos than YouTube.

Also, I noticed that YouTube doesn’t accept over 100mb video even it’s less than 10 minutes. That’s what happened to one of my recent video about “10 More Wordpress Plugins” which only 6 minutes long but it is little over 100mb. If you upload any videos thru Google Video Uploader (standalone; small program; require for over 100mb) instead of uploading online, it will take few days to approve. It’s silly but that’s something you have to prepare little ahead of time.

I still create all of my videos on both services as long as it accepts within their requirement. Why? It reaches more people and different kind of geography around the world.

I noticed that Jared prefer to use Google Video (mostly) while Lenois prefer to use YouTube (mostly) then finally Joey Baer stick with higher quality, mov format video.

Hmmm…

Of course, it would be even better if you view it from my own server. It is very much higher quality but many times deaf people told me it did not work! Especially on Firefox and Opera browsers – I felt that Google Video and YouTube is more compatibility on all browser. It is also benefits to Mac/Apple deaf users since I heavily use AVI format which uses on Windows Media player.

In general, I still see blog owner would use either YouTube or Google Video which is good. Best of all, it is free service. You still should use video from you server anyway. (higher quality)

To view video thru YouTube, click here or to view video from my server, click here.

It’s been over a year since we adopted our deaf dog – Toby.

It’s been wonderful experience for all of us. He is always attention grabber especially our visitors – he’s always so exciting to see them. Sometime he would bark at them. Everyone always said he’s sooo cute but he’s one who is most mischief in my house.

I taught him how to speak with dog treat. Once he finally learned how to do it, he was so loud; it caused another two dogs not to bark at all. They think Toby is freak dude. I always make sure he’s with us, sometime he fell asleep on floor – I can’t call him, I had to wake him up by gently shake him. This way he won’t get so jumpy. (Picture on right - Toby the puppy in July 2005)

Typically, Toby always follows with my other two dogs especially at backyard. When they bark at birds, squirrels, or neighbor dogs, Toby will copy them too. Silly boy. He has a tag saying "Toby - Deaf" with home address.

In long run, it’s worth to have Toby. Oh yeah, my another dog Hobbit - he’s still my buddy, too

You can look up more about deaf dogs at http://www.deafdogs.org/

Also, you can look up http://www.petfinder.com – since they doesn’t have search box specifically for deaf dogs. The trick is go to www.google.com and type

petfinder.com: deaf

just like that and you will able to view better results. Click here.

To view video thru YouTube, click here and to view video thru my server, click here.

Note: I said deafdogs.com on video which is mistake. Sorry.

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