{"id":248,"date":"2010-09-24T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T09:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/?p=248"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:13:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:13:51","slug":"memo-to-security-conference-organizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2010\/09\/24\/memo-to-security-conference-organizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo to Security Conference Organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, there are more security conferences in September and October in Europe than any sensible organization will ever want to send people to. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Aggressive hard-sell phone calls will not help. Quite to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>And if you send email invitations, remember that you&#8217;re sending mail to security professionals. Including tracking images in the HTML version and linking to a tracked version of your conference website is considered rude in these circles.<\/p>\n<p>Cut it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, there are more security conferences in September and October in Europe than any sensible organization will ever want to send people to. Sorry. Aggressive hard-sell phone calls will not help. Quite to the contrary. And if you send email invitations, remember that you&#8217;re sending mail to security professionals. Including tracking images in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}