Z Soft

[Michael Rosiles]

Toughleather palms make them perfect for cold-weather tasks at home or digging your car out of a snowbank, while a thin construction with touchscreen functionality, articulated fingers, and a breathable soft-shell back mean it can work as a liner.

I use a smart list to suppress leads who have soft bounced a minimum number of 3 times for any email sent to them (A lead can only soft bounce 1 time per email, so this would be any 3 soft bounces for any set of emails ever sent to a recipient?).

Suppressing useless data from Marketo is only necessary to comply with your licence limitations. With regards to email, Marketo will always filter out invalid emails and black listed from any email (batch or trigger)

I would rather suspend them for a while (e.g. 1 month) if they have had multiple (e.g.) soft bounces in a quite short duration (1 months), then put them back to normal, and delete them do this if it keeps happening.

'nother wrinkle is that soft bounces can result from a mere typo in the domain name. If the mistyped domain name doesn't exist, that's "soft" -- there's no firm thumbs-down response from a mailserver, so it isn't "hard," as strange as that might seem.

Related to the same suppression smart list I brought up on initial question, but does it make sense to Marketing Suspend leads that have experienced multiple Hard Bounces? I have a recurring batch campaign that will suspend emails with multiple Hard Bounces, but after the first hard bounce occurs the email will be marked invalid and Marketo will automatically exclude them from future sends right?

That same smart list also suppresses any leads that have an Email Invalid, Black Listed, Marketing Suspended or Unsubscribed status set to 'true.' But is this even necessary, since Marketo will supposedly exclude these people from a send automatically? Can an email hard bounce and not be marked 'Email Invalid'?

Like many others, I feel burned out because I lost to capitalism a long time ago. I lost before I existed; before my grandmothers were teenagers with their firstborns (my absentee parents), both still grieving the early losses of their fathers to war and illness. Capitalism is a cold indestructible mass that embraces no one. Even for the winners of capitalism, the only way to persist is to develop toxic politics and relationships.

The desperation, exhaustion, and hopelessness in both the content of my thoughts and the method of capturing my thoughts exist because I work to live without getting to actually live, or process living.

Being an artist within an economic system that favors private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, a price system, and competitive markets belittles my practice into a hobby. I am an amateur with no artist statement, thesis show, or MFA. The money I invest in creating art is a temporary loan to myself that I feel pressured to repay quickly by attempting to exhibit wherever the crowds are.

The monetary motivations of capitalism can be a comfortable place to some because it is known. Capitalism is a well-established masculine monoculture of stoicism, competitiveness, dominance, and aggression that relies on dependencies and power structures. I lose my autonomy in it as a sensitive introvert. If I could exist in an undefined space instead, I could use the ambiguity to nourish my emotional needs and create soft definitions of what it means to be.

Self-publishing breaks down barriers between an artist and an audience. It lets the artist define what is publishable or not. I decided to publish the rejection poem myself on my own internet: the email inboxes of my friends. I called it Email Blog.

Email Blog became my monthly newsletter where I explored topics that caught my attention, like the discomfort of boredom or the comfort of rain sounds, and connected them with personal anecdotes. I ended each email with underlines from whatever I was currently reading and one of my unpublished poems. To avoid making it all about me, I offered custom poems based on subscriber-submitted words and created public Google Docs with abstract doodles to crowd-source interpretations.

Email Blog cleared my backlog of unpublished works that silently prevented me from moving forward. After a couple of years, I opened up enough space to see the act of contributing to the stressful inbox load of others was counterintuitive to how I wanted to contribute. Forcing my voice to fit in with marketing emails and Amazon order confirmations was a quick way to lose my voice.

Needing to take my voice offline, I decided to extend Email Blog into its current form: Mail Blog. Through it, I encourage an exchange of physical trades and letters instead of emails. In its easy-to-mail, simple zine format, my voice, and the eyes of anyone who reads it, can be free of the screen, and harder to lose.

I fund Mail Blog by siphoning money from the man (i.e. the paycheck I get from my corporate job). I redistribute it into the communication commons in a format that costs me one Forever stamp to send, and source supplies from creative reuse shops when possible to keep it affordable. By giving work away for free, my expectations, and the expectations of the readers, can stay soft. It is a fresh start for me to expand and build my definition of what it means to be an artist and where I can be an artist.

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