powermail-discuss Digest #2865 - Thursday, July 31, 2008
Re: Large Group E-mails
by "Steve Tarpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Large Group E-mails
by "Graham B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Large Group E-mails
by "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Large Group E-mails
From: "Steve Tarpin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:38:31 -0400
>MaxBulkMailer
><http://www.maxprog.com>
>may be the perfect tool for your task.
I've tried BulkMailer as well, does not really address the names
properly (recognizing first and last names as provided by PowerMail).
For me, this has not been the real problem as much as the big ISPs
blackmailing mails that are sent in large numbers, regardless of whether
you are welcomed by the sender or not; send out bulk emails, you are a
SPAMMER. If you want to build and maintain a viable business email
solution, you'll eventually have to go through a third party email
marketing company such as Vertical Response, with viable opt-in and opt-
out features.
Although I have many thousands of addressees collected over the years, I
have found PowerMail severely lacking in helping the needs of serious
businesses who want to create and maintain an email marketing tool.
Requests to make the deletion of "dead" addresses easily and
systematically have gone unanswered, so I KNOW the next time I send out
a bulk email (MaxBulkMailer or not) I will have to hand-pick and delete
literally hundreds and hundreds of dead addresses, one by one. Do
yourself a favor (if this is the direction you're going), make the
transition as soon as you can, possibly separating a business address
from one you use for more personal communications. Something I wish I
had done years ago.
Hope this helps, I know I will eventually have to break away from PM, I
just loath the idea of the amount of work involved.
Regards...
--
Steve's Authentic, Inc.
204 Van Dyke Street
Pier 41, Red Hook
Brooklyn, NY 11231
Telephone: 718-858-5333
Outside NYC: 888-450-5463
FAX: 718-858-4345
www.keylime.com
www.stevesauthentic.com
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Subject: Re: Large Group E-mails
From: "Graham B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:01:43 +1000
MaxBulkMailer works fine for me, using a mailing list of 450 or so
addresses for a quarterly newsletter. When you get MBM you also get a
couple of extra tools, an email verifier and a bounce handler, which
saves much of the manual work.
MBM also allows you to set the number of connections and how many emails
are sent at once, to avoid the spam issue. It's certainly faster than
sending one at a time, and way cheaper than a mail house.
Just my two bob's worth . . .
Graham B
>>MaxBulkMailer
>><http://www.maxprog.com>
>>may be the perfect tool for your task.
>
>I've tried BulkMailer as well, does not really address the names
>properly (recognizing first and last names as provided by PowerMail).
>For me, this has not been the real problem as much as the big ISPs
>blackmailing mails that are sent in large numbers, regardless of whether
>you are welcomed by the sender or not; send out bulk emails, you are a
>SPAMMER. If you want to build and maintain a viable business email
>solution, you'll eventually have to go through a third party email
>marketing company such as Vertical Response, with viable opt-in and opt-
>out features.
>
>Although I have many thousands of addressees collected over the years, I
>have found PowerMail severely lacking in helping the needs of serious
>businesses who want to create and maintain an email marketing tool.
>Requests to make the deletion of "dead" addresses easily and
>systematically have gone unanswered, so I KNOW the next time I send out
>a bulk email (MaxBulkMailer or not) I will have to hand-pick and delete
>literally hundreds and hundreds of dead addresses, one by one. Do
>yourself a favor (if this is the direction you're going), make the
>transition as soon as you can, possibly separating a business address
>from one you use for more personal communications. Something I wish I
>had done years ago.
>
>Hope this helps, I know I will eventually have to break away from PM, I
>just loath the idea of the amount of work involved.
>
>Regards...
>
>--
>Steve's Authentic, Inc.
>204 Van Dyke Street
>Pier 41, Red Hook
>Brooklyn, NY 11231
>
>Telephone: 718-858-5333
>Outside NYC: 888-450-5463
>FAX: 718-858-4345
>
>www.keylime.com
>www.stevesauthentic.com
>
>
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Subject: Re: Large Group E-mails
From: "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:02:46 +0200
Steve Tarpin suggested:
>If you want to build and maintain a viable business email
>solution, you'll eventually have to go through a third party email
>marketing company such as Vertical Response, with viable opt-in and opt-
>out features.
or you could set up a listserv or similar at your server.
That people try to use the right tool for the wrong job surprises me.
After all, how many use a hammer to drive a 4 foot bolt into rock? How
many people suggests that it really _should_ be able to do so?
>ISPs blackmailing mails that are sent in large numbers
There is some learning offered with this little nugget of information.
Mikael
Technoids:
PM 5.6.5 build 4509 sv / SpamSieve 2.7.1 sv | OS X 10.4.8 | Powerbook
G4/400 | 1GB / 80GB
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