Ok let me resume:
1.) it's a non-tecnical person
2.) his task is to sell more
3.) he don't know what means being flooded with marketing mails because
you filter them out all of this trash.
Solution: disable spam filtering for this guy (or bether the entire
marketing dept)
Say nothing to
So here is my dilemma: These people are VERY non-technical and my greatest
worry as the mail admin is that some bright marketing person is going to
sit down with Outlook, plug a bunch of customer names into their address
book and start sending out spam. I know we fight external spammers but how
The first thing I would do is check to see if your Internet provider has a
TOS that prohibits spamming (which is very likely). If so, you may want
to
pass that information on to the marketing department. If they know that
their actions could risk the company losing Internet access even
Andy,
Harvesting from business cards dropped in a fish bowl is not a best
practice, even if they feel justified in doing so. Address collection
should be done by a method that follows MAPS standards, and E-mail
campaigns need to follow their same best standards as well. Even if you
do so, you
Hi Andy-
I get this question for my customers a couple of times a month. Of course,
we prohibit such activity. We usually send them to one of the list houses
that specialize in this kind of thing. Microsoft's B-Central lets you create
a list and mail to it, and there are many others that are
or not.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Markus Gufler
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:05 AM
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Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Email Marketing
Ok let me resume:
1.) it's a non-tecnical person
2.) his task is to sell more
3.) he
Basic Mailing List Management Guidelines for Preventing Abuse
http://www.mail-abuse.org/manage.html
Thanks Matt...that was exactly what I was looking for. Would a place like
EmailLabs (http://www.emaillabs.com) be a good place to investigate or does
anyone else have the name of a good (read
Listservs that service small companies are commonly very dirty and have
RBL issues, bCentral for instance is terrible. As far as other
companies go, you need to make sure that they don't also operate under
other identities, or service dirty lists as a practice.
Experian/exactis.com,
