On Mon 24 Feb, Neil J. McRae wrote:
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997 19:12:35 -0800 "Joseph C. Pistritto" <jcp@pointcast.com> wrote:
I'd like suggestions from members of the community on the best way to do bulk mailings to our user base (not product recommendations specifically or anything like that), but obvious pitfalls to watch out for.
The best way is not to do it.
Actually our users quite like service updates via email as long as we are not trying to sell them anything or there are too many. All our userbase downloads mail via POP3. In the Qualcomm version of popper there is the concept of bulletins - where you create your email and popper sends it to each user once when they connect on the fly. (Keeping a dbm file of who has recived the mail so they don't get loads of copies...) You need to be very careful with what you put in there - and keep the marketing poeple away from it ;-) Regards aid -- Adrian J Bool | mailto:aid@u-net.net Network Operations | http://www.u-net.net/ U-NET Ltd | tel://44.1925.484461/