This sounds like a question for your mailing house not this list. They must
have an extremely loose definition of duplicate. Ebase's loose match is
about as loose as I would want to go without a lot of investigation of what
is wrong.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julie Fish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 4:26 PM
> To: TechRocks Support
> Subject: [support] duplicates
>
>
> I just recently sent out a mailing, and checked for dupes before
> sending to
> my mailing service. When I gave the list to the service, I had
> 17,000 names
> in the list. Of course, I had that many newsletters printed up. Today I
> received a phone call from the mail house that they were returning nearly
> 5,000 (gulp!) to me, because they duped out 4,000+ names from our list. I
> have imported a lot of lists over the last few months, but have always
> checked for dupes before importing in e-base. I just checked for dupes
> again, using the loose function, and got only 138 dupes. There is a
> possiblity that the mail house made some sort of error, but what could I
> possibly be doing wrong here that 4,000 dupes are not showing up? Is there
> a custom search that I can create to be more thorough? Help!
>
>
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