Yeah - forgot about the META encoding format. Silly me. Haven't used it
in a while.
:-)
Sunny Wamberal is sunny - I'm actually work from my place in Forresters
Beach, so it's sunny and beachy, and from my place I get to look out
over the water so it's a nice office to work from. And my clients don't
make me travel much so I avoid the SYdney travel downside of living up
here. I see you're in Ourimbah Rd, Mosman. Don't know the road but
funny that you're in a street the same as a Central Coast suburb - used
to have my office in Military Rd, Neutral Bay for quite a few years and
then Crows Nest. Aren't WI just down the road in Neutral Bay?
I haven't done the subscription mailout piece yet - though it is in the
near future for me as I have a couple of sites that are getting large
contact lists where it will be better to handle form the server than
fro a desktop computer.
I was thinking to add it as an extension to my clients sites' admin
system/content management system where they have a few different HTML
email formats to choose from, they (or I) enter the copy for the
mailout, referencing whatever products etc., the client previews &
tests the email to themselves, and then one-click and it's email
marketing heaven and loads of new orders.
Sounds good in theory anyway. However my thinking is that I would
probably have to add an additional component to stagger the emailouts
so as not to alert any over zealous ISP/SMTP server. Had any problems
sending 5000 emails at a time?
Gp
bbmedia.com.au
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PO Box 3543 Wamberal NSW 2260
On 08/09/2005, at 1:17 PM, Wayne Irvine wrote:
Garth Penglase at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good to talk to a local on the list.
How is sunny Wamberal? ;)
You've sort of answered your own question here: The debug line shows
the ASSIGN doing what you've told it to do - putting the literal text
in to the variable. Don't use the literal tag and the variable will be
properly assigned.
I go through a whole process of building the content from records in a
content management system and assigning it to a VAR. Then I need to loop
through a number (about 5500) subscribers and send to each. SO at the
point
of making the content the email VAR is unknown (and of course changes
for
each recipient). That's why I need to insert the LITERAL meta tag.
If you have problems including the HTML characters in the assign, why
not put the HTML in a footer file, use an <@include> for the footer and
have the variable containing just the unsubscribe link in the footer.
It was originally built that way but it wasn't working and I thought it
was
some sort of INCLUDE problem (although I don't think so anymore).
That's why
I was looking at this alternative way of doing it. Most of my education
can
be traced back to a mistake. :)
The META encoding does the trick nicely. I include LITERAL meta tags in
the
template then interpret them when I'm making the individual emails.
Works
nicely.
Wayne
Byte Services Pty Ltd
http://www.byteserve.com.au/
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