Julie Fish,
I recommend you try a program called Mailers+4. Ebase v1.03 does a
below-average job of finding duplicates. However, MP4 does an above-average
job. It finds people with misspelled last names for example.
If these duplicate exist in your ebase mailing, try using a different
duplicate check function by using custom find. You will have to create a
duplicate check field that is something like <<street address number>> +
<<street address name>> (without apartments, street directions such as
east/west, and without peoples' names).
We recently removed about 10,000 out of a list of 30,000 name entries when
switching to ebase. MP4 found most of the duplicates. ebase found few.
Since we do all mail in-house for 10,000 in newsletters to over 150,000 next
month in an acqusition, we use MP4 often. It's a very powerful tool for
creating bulk mail.
Andy
Springs Rescue Mission
http://www.springsrescuemission.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Walt Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 8:53 PM
To: TechRocks Support
Subject: [support] RE: duplicates
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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