Comments on: Dr. Dobbs Journal is Dead

By: AC

AC — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:19:02 +0000

How about someone at Dr. Dobbs gets around to fixing their Unsubscribe?
If you got onto the “Dr. Dobb’s” email list, you can NOT unsubscribe.

Probably related, if you email anyone@cmp.com, your email gets rejected for an SPF error. Apparently CMP relays inbound email from one external server to a second, internal server… and the internal server does an SPF check!! Basically any domain using valid SPF records will be rejected by CMP’s mail server. Lovely.

So probably that’s what is causing Unsubscribe requests to be lost. Or at the least, it’s why you can’t email a real person at the CMP websites to beg them to take you off their list (I don’t really need ads for Sybase, etc. thank you very much).

By: David

David — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:59:21 +0000

Anyone notice that all the blogs about Dr. Dobb’s departure are citing the Z Trek blog, which is written by the co-founder of Dr. Dobb’s greatest competitor SD Times.

Suddenly the blogosphere is full of headlines like “RIP Dr. Dobb’s”, but InfoWorld halted their print a long time ago and are just fine.

I have yet to find any evidence that Dr. Dobb’s is “dead” by any means whatsoever. They are just continuing to reduce the focus on print, like everybody else.

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Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:23:56 +0000

[...] I saw that it’s changing from a “journal” to a “report” and being included [...]

By: itpinoy

itpinoy — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:57:17 +0000

DDJ became some sort of my bible during my college days (around 13yrs ago), so this story is quite sad. But Jon Erickson see it quite differently, DDJ is just “changing.”