Now now now. That's not nice. You're making unreasonable assumptions. You might not know that the Australian Broadcasting Act makes it illegal in Australia to send unsolicited commercial emails except under very specific circumstances - a move which I welcomed and applauded. And i applauded and cheered out loud when a spammer in Perth was arrested, fined millions of bucks and spent some time in the hoosegow for it.
I'm as much against spamming as anyone. One day i'm going to be alone in a room with a spammer and I can promise you there'll be blood on the walls when it's all over. Might be MY blood but there'll be blood, pain and tears. Definitely. No, in this case, the application is opted-in emails sent to membership of a large organisation where members sign up with annual dues. And we will most definitely be complying with all the Australian rules relating to bulk emails - opt-in only, provide working opt-out/changed my mind link, relevant content only, lists not for sale or rent etc etc. So relax. And as for "success", Phillip you make a good point that I should have made plain in my original question - "success" for this exercise only means 'opened and/or read" THe successfullness of whatever campaign/news we're issuing will be measured in other ways, depending on the nature of the campaign. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 5/28/07, Phillip M. Vector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah. Same here. :) > > You do realize.. It's not exactly polite to do what you are planning. > Right? I know that you need to pay the bills and all that, but consider > the idea that what you are planning to do will be blocked by several > spam filters as well as those who know what they are doing. > > Is your employer ready for the negative reaction to your spam spy mail? > > Les Mizzell wrote: > >>> to a CF page on my server > >>> that loads a transparent gif into the reader's email, and adds a > >>> record to a DB table recording the userid and content id etc. > > > > I've been very happy with Thunderbird since I dumped Outlook and/or > > Outlook Express. Thunderbird excels in blocking just the kind of thing > > you're setting up there.... > > > > Hmmmm... > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:279379 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
