drew
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Re: So I am about to become the least popular man here...
Trust me, we've been round and round on this.
We have a webserver in house with TWO T-1s. (Yeah, that makes sense... it's not like colo would be insanely cheaper or anything. . .) Plenty of bandwidth, but people around here are afraid of clicking on links in email, so they figure everyone else is too. |
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B
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| I'm just going to ignore the self-deception and self-contradiction in their position ('cause it kinda baffles the mind) and ask that they at least try to slim the sucker down. Use HTML to its full extent and you won't need too many embedded images. Lots of times it turns out that the stupid company logo is well over half the message size.
But as you're well aware, what you're about to do makes your company the enemy of every sentient being who you victimize... 
Anyway, on topic, aren't there all kinds of relatively trusted outsourced mail agencies you can use?
Then again, the really legitimate ones would require that you have real opt-in authorization for your mailings, which based on what you've said so far I kinda doubt?
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drew
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| Straight from the Sales dept.'s mouth is that every e-mail address was collected at a tradeshow for solicitation purposes and that the person who signed up was well aware of it. Entirely possible.
I assure you, none of this is my idea, but I can't do much to change what the business owners want. I think I might be able to win the battle of clicking on a link to the PDF soon, so I'll keep pressing that.
Thanks for your thoughts |
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B
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| I've been to enough of those trade shows. The scanning has replaced business cards, but there's no consent to spam (except that smart people realize that's exactly what's going to happen every time they hand out their info). I doubt that the contacts signed their names to a sheet that said "sign up for our spammy newsletter here".
The phrase "Hi! Let me scan your badge" is a frightening one.
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drew
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| regardless of the tactics, I have a job to do. I've been assured by those above me that it is all on the up and up. I've done what I can and am not in a position to make such decisions.
Do you have a recommendation as to what 3rd party vendors could handle this kind of thing? |
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B
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| Sorry no. I think it came up in a discussion here a while back but I don't recall the one or two mail houses that were mentioned.
Before my last reply I Googled the subject but of course it's difficult to avoid the antispam links and find a trusted mail house.
One suggestion I can offer is »www.m0.net/ . Dell uses them... of course I only know this because I had to fish some out of our spam bucket.
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