I would create "the list". Then send out a one-time email to each of
the emails on your list with details of how to sign up for the list.
This way you are getting the best of both worlds - a targeted message,
and an opt-in list.
While this is probably a little more work, I think it'd be the most
neutral way to handle this type of job.
80,000 emails is a lot though, so, I'd probably create a generic
message, and then write a script to send an individual email to each of
the addresses. The script itself wouldn't be too hard, but would likely
take a few hours to troubleshoot/perfect. Still, much less time than
sending those messages manually though....
My thoughts (for what they are worth at the moment - I'm a little tired
and not focusing too well on topics.. :) ).
Shawn
Jesse Kline wrote:
Hey everyone,
I'm working for an organization that has a list of ~80,000 e-mail
addresses and we want to create a mailing list, but we have two problems:
1) Our hosting provider will not allow us to send out that many e-mails.
I figure that a potential solution would be to use Mailman with the full
personalization feature so it sends each e-mail individually (correct me
if I'm wrong). However, that brings me to my second problem.
2) Many of the e-mail addresses were given to us awhile ago and we don't
want our messages to be interpreted as spam. Is it possible to setup a
list so that users have to specifically opt-in rather than opt-out? If
so, how would I set this up?
Thank you,
Jesse
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