Re: managing e-newsletter subscription lists

From: Philip Mak <mfraser_at_SEAS.GWU.EDU>
Date: Wed 1 Mar 2000 13:09:14 -0500 (EST)

PHILIP MAK WROTE:
> Here's another software to check out:
> http://www.marketingtips.com/mailloop/t.x/39469
> It's called Mailloop, which is the complete Internet
> e-mail, newsletter server, web form processor, bulk
> e-mail, customer database, and autoresponder solution
> all integrated into an easy-to-use single application.
 
TO WHICH ADAM LASNIK REPLIED:
> Mailloop and other similar programs, are no doubt great
> when your service provider allows you to send to
> no-spam, opt-in mailing lists via their mail server.
> But my provider, for instance, caps the max mails per
> hour to 100 -- a bit of a bummer when I have ten lists
> with over a 1000 members each.

Mailloop has one advantage that most bulk mail programs
don't have:

It connects directly to the mail server of the
recipient to deliver the message. For example, let's
say you have the following mailing list:

pmak_at_aaanime.net
sunlord_at_girlsofanime.com
support_at_ezvnet.com

It will connect to aaanime.net port 25 to deliver the
message to pmak It will connect to girlsofanime.com
port 25 to deliver the message to sunlord It will
connect to ezvnet.com port 25 to deliver the message to
support etc.

So your internet access and web hosting service
providers are NOT involved in this at all. You're not
using their mail servers; in fact, mailloop makes your
computer act as a mail server. This allows you to get
around any limitations that your ISP places on the
usage of their mail server, because you won't be using
it.

-Philip Mak (mfraser_at_seas.gwu.edu)





Received on Wed Mar 01 2000 - 12:09:14 CST