Re: [IMail Forum] Personalized newsletters?

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    The simplest implementation of anything like this is to have a separate
list for each item of interest.  A local company of some 1,200 employees
does this.  They have a separate news letters for each department and for
the various levels in the company.  I don't know what mail program they are
using but the sign-up is all from a single page with check boxes for each
desired item.  Using one of the web based sign-ups from either Ipswitch or
one of the third party offerings you should be able to replicate this.

Kevin Childers

----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "IMail Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 5:39 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Personalized newsletters?


> Greetings, IMail Forum members,
>
> I have been tasked with an "interesting challenge". I work for a large
> Canadian university and our Development and Alumni Relations department
> would like to send personalized newsletters once a month to about 50,000
> constituents, each message averaging about 4 KB, thus about 200 MB to
> deliver in total.
>
> For the sake of simplicity, assume that there are only 3 topics of
interest:
> A (Science), B (Sports) and C (Arts).  In reality, it is more like 25
> topics.  Each recipient has notified the department of the topics in which
> they are interested. For instance: A+B, A+C, B only, etc.
>
> A colleague of mine is writing a program that will output a list that will
> have one row per recipient showing the e-mail address and their topic(s)
of
> choice. The program could also output a text file containing the "collage"
> of appropriate topical sections for each recipient, thus making available
> the entire body of the text to be sent to him/her.
>
> Three questions (for now!):
>
> 1. Is there a clever way in IMail Server 6.05a of using the list server
> function, program aliases or perhaps IMAIL1.EXE in some combination to
> achieve this?
>
> 2. Would writing another program that calls IMAIL1.EXE (or perhaps
BLAT.EXE;
> by the way, which one is more efficient?) that goes through the list/table
> created by the aforementioned program to e-mail each recipient with the
> proper text body be a viable solution?
>
> 3. In either case, what hardware would you recommend for such a list
server?
> Which OS (Windows NT 4.0, W2K Server, W2K Advanced Server)?
>
> I know that LISTSERV in combination with LSMTP, both available from L-Soft
> International (http://www.lsoft.com/, specifically
> http://www.lsoft.com/products/default.asp?item=listserv_database), could
do
> of on-the-fly mail merge and send to a single list of 50,000 recipients.
> Unfortunately, this is not an option for us at the present time. We do
have
> LISTSERV but not LSMTP.
>
> Any advice and comments gratefully received :)
>
> Guy
>
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> Guy Isabel     <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
>
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