On 21 May 2010 07:55, slamberton <[email protected]> wrote:
I really didn't expect it would become a topic of discussion on this public > list. I guess my first "learning" will be to revisit the idea of using > third party services for such initiatives ;-) > The privacy of email addresses is of significant concern, not just because of spam but also for many other reasons (think of how many sites use your email address as your user account name). Thankfully, alternatives are plentiful and relatively painless. The effort required to enable a new specialized 'announce-only' mailing list using LPI's existing list-management software, and to set up analytics on a specialized destination at the LPI site using webalizer or Google Analytics (etc), would probably have been less than the effort required to contract a third party. And with the money saved by not outsourcing, LPI may be able to, perhaps, issue a few more vouchers. ;-) - Evan
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