Re: [SAGE] politely sending emails to huge lists of recipients

[Torleiv Flatebo <tor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Limoncelli wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Marco Marongiu<brontolinux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > Hi Tom
> >
> > Thanks for replying. Unfortunately, paying an external provider for this
> > service is something that $EMPLOYER can't definitely afford. So we need
> > a tool for that, to use it internally.
> >
> > No chance? :-(
> >     
>
> I'm not saying that you should lie to you boss, but I would totally
> endorse if you spoke to him/her and explained, "Gosh, Sir, I asked on
> SAGE-members and it turns out it isn't as easy as we thought.  In
> fact, they said it can't be done. AOL and Hotmail have some very
> strict policies that are difficult to adhere to, they don't tell you
> the whole story and you have to keep close watch on each batch of
> email to see what didn't get through and modify our strategy.  The
> anti-spam people are crazy.  They track what people are spending and
>
>   
Marco,

I concur with Tom's advice. Sending any amount of emails to lists 
greater than a few hundred to the larger ISPs will cause you maintenance 
nightmares in dealing with blocking issues and getting caught in SPAM 
traps. Their rules are primarily based on sending IP, and the ESP 
companies (like Constant Contact) work very hard to keep the reputation 
of those IPs up to the level that ISPs will not block them. You will not 
always know when each ISP blocks you, and end up in a reactive mode when 
people say that they are not receiving those emails for the past few 
months...

Torleiv Flatebo