Re: mass email distribution software
This is getting even further off topic, but the first person who figures out how to make micro payments with regard to the web will make a killing.
There are a lot of newsletters, donations, etc. that I would be more than willing to pay $0.25 or more to on a regular basis, but there is no way, that I know of to do it. For example set up a monthy bill of $40-$50 that I pay that I can definable where it goes (x to debian, y to EFF, z to newsletter, etc.). When you get into smaller amounts, transaction fees start to make it unreasonable. Maybe something like this is out there and I just don't know about it. Anyone?
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On 1/28/02 at 1:27 PM Chuck Peters wrote:
>I think it depends a lot on who uses it. We have an ethical use for some
>mass email distribution software.
>
>My friend Kathy Miles writes a weekly column and publishes it on the web
>at http://StarrySkies.com and we sometimes get requests to send it via
>email. We have tossed around the idea of setting up something to mail the
>articles weekly, but I haven't really looked into setting it up mostly
>because we aren't making any money with the site.
>
>If anyone has any suggestion as to how we can ethically make money with
>the site, please let us know.
>
>Thanks,
>Chuck
>
>On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, jogi hofmueller wrote:
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>> hi!
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>> the following is not technical but more ethical or so.
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>> recently i was asked to develop some sort of mass email distribution
>> software for someone sending monthly newsletters about music events to a
>> list of about 3000 addresses. now, before getting too deep into
>> reading/searching information i would like to hear some statements about
>> this because since i think about this 'project' i am torn between
>> thinking of it as 'good idea' and 'spam-tool'.
>>
>> i know that everyone hates spam. therefore i think the idea to put a
>> mailing-list-like mechanism with automated (un)subscribe procedure behind
>> such a thing would be not so bad because it would make it possible to
>> really unsubscribe from a list where i don't want to get anymore mails
>> from.
>>
>> i would be glad to get some feedback here.
>>
>> sincerely
>> - --
>> j.h.
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