On Jul 15, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Stephen Potter wrote: > I've dealt with mailchimp for one case, and was very unhappy with how > stringent they are. Be very careful of their thresholds for abuse > complaints, bounces, and unsubscribes, particularly if you are a smallish > list. For 100,000+ it may not be terrible, but for a list I had with about > 750-1000 people, .1% (1 or less for the entire list) for "abuse complaint" > and 1% (7-10 for the list) for unsubscribes were just too difficult to deal > with. All I needed was for someone to press the wrong button - or just not > understand what spam means - and complain that my list was spam (a mailing > list for a martial arts tournament that went solely to previous participants > and martial arts schools)
Ah, but did they *ask* to receive this mail / be added to your mailing list? "Hey, this applies to Steve, I'll put Steve on the mailing list!" flat out doesn't fly, though it seems many folks do it. Remember, spam is about consent, not content. -- Corey _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
