On Thursday, March 1, 2018 at 8:15:27 AM UTC-5, Walter Lee Davis wrote: > > > > On Mar 1, 2018, at 12:01 AM, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 7:02:00 PM UTC-5, Hassan Schroeder > wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 3:17 PM, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I wanna let me bloggers create subscriber lists and send bulk emails > so i > > > wanna use a service like mailchimp but i don't wanna have to iterate > through > > > the users mailing lists to send each mail, rather i want my server to > > > communicate with mailchimp once, giving it the list What type of > mailchimp > > > setup would that be, does it have a name? > > > > Yes, it's called "MailChimp" 😀 > > > > That's what MailChimp is about -- you create your subscriber list > > *on their system* and tell MC to initiate bulk email sendings via > > their API. > > > > -- > > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.s...@gmail.com > > twitter: @hassan > > Consulting Availability : Silicon Valley or remote > > > > Thanks Hassan I actually get a bad feeling about sharing all those > email addresses with mailchimp Maybe it would be better to setup a new > domain and vps mail server dedicated to my site's blog user's mailing > lists, this way if the server gets blacklisted I can just create a new one > If users invite subscribers and then send them bulk email it's not > necessarily a gateway for spammers How would a spammer take advantage of > something like that and why would they bother > > MailChimp make their living by being above-board, and they stay off the > perma-ban spam lists by not being spammy. It's a full-time job to run your > own mail-out service, to cross all the Ts and dot all the Is. I recommend > outsourcing this part -- it's genuinely difficult. Spammers won't > necessarily take advantage of your mail-out or MailChimp, what will happen > is that you will do something that is inadvertently perceived by all the > varied spam filters out there as being spam, and then you will be > blacklisted. It won't matter if you move servers then, because the mail > will still come from your domain, and it's the domain that gets > blacklisted. MailChimp (and other similar services) work hard to ensure > that your messages get through. They do this not through any trickery, but > by following the rules and restricting what kinds of messages you are able > to send with their server. Remember, it's their livelihood (not just yours) > that would be messed with, so they are strict. > > Walter > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/29facf35-0fd0-4612-8471-82c18711e270%40googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
If I let bloggers send bulk emails to their subscribers, then you're saying I should expect to have some spammers posing as bloggers, or bloggers can be spammers too? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/34ef7349-89a1-4696-8601-4018be517a0d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
