Re: mass email distribution software
Micropayments... many companies have tried, many have failed.
The closest I've seen to a functional version of this is PayPal. They
allow micropayments, so have a look into it. Not that I personally like
them a lot, but many people use them, so it may be worthwhile.
Also, if you're looking into "Safe Lists" for sending out emails, look at
www.mydownlinebuilder.com or
http://www.trafficattractor.com/Safe-List/tasafelist/
They are one of our dedicated server clients, and send out millions of
emails per day, and we receive nearly no "spam" complaints. They can
either host your distribution list, or something like that... their perl
software is tailored to large distributions of emails. (note: I don't get
a cent for referring you to either paypal or trafficattractor).
(on another note, some of you (hi russell) may remember a discussion a
while ago about sending emails to millions, how to tune servers and hard
disks to sending emails, etc.... well, this is it!)
Sincerely,
Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lang Hurst" <grakker_plus@yahoo.com>
To: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:13 AM
Subject: 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!
>>
>> the following is not technical but more ethical or so.
>>
>> 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.
>> jogi hofmueller <jogi@mur.at>
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