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  • yes, I would like it

    63 95.45%
  • no, don't want an email

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kelly Jessop View Post
    You are right. I even get a mass emailing once a month from a dive shop in cave country,they do it. I found by talking to my server it told me what I could do.
    There are several different services that can help with this. You don't do it from your local platform. They do it for you.

    Consider: Constant Contact -

    or Mail Chimp - (Probably more SCUBA orriented )


    Best of Luck.


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    Quote Originally Posted by mag3 View Post
    There are several different services that can help with this. You don't do it from your local platform. They do it for you.

    Consider: Constant Contact -

    or Mail Chimp - (Probably more SCUBA orriented )


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    Yes, but they want money to do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kelly Jessop View Post
    The cave agencies journals are only quaterly,and so much can transpire between this 3 month period. Would you like or object to the agencies keeping an email data base and contacting the membership with relevant emailings.
    Kelly, I think the second choice should have read "No, I get enough spam as it is".

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    Quote Originally Posted by FW View Post
    Kelly, I think the second choice should have read "No, I get enough spam as it is".
    I agree,but I don't think of an infrequent email from the agencies as spam..unless you guys are going to start selling ######. I get a handful of usefull emails monthly or less from organizations that I regard with import and relevance,the other crap the spam filter doesn't delete,I just to it manually as the cost of the information age.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FW View Post
    Yes, but they want money to do it.
    Do it for free,can be done but you will have to send out smaller batches. Servers have a number that they consider spam,and stay below that and they won't bother you. (yes,they will tell what it is)

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    With all the meaningless crap that I get by e-mail, it would be refreshing to get something I was actually interested in.

    (Or..."in which I was actually interested." Sorry Sludge; I don't want to get a ticket from the grammar police for ending a sentence with a preposition!)


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    When I sent out the email notification for the CDS vote a few months ago, I sent it in batches of 100 and had no negative feedback (from the ISP or recipients). Based on comments, it appears that a large number of them made it into the members' inboxes.

    I use Hotmail and its spam filter is actually really good. I get 1-2 messages a month in my inbox that are truly spam. So far, the only thing I've found that consistently gets sent to the spam folder that shouldn't are E-cards that people have taken the time to create for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MORGAN View Post
    Sorry Sludge; I don't want to get a ticket from the grammar police for ending a sentence with a preposition!
    You're right - a preposition is a poor choice of words to end a sentence with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slüdge View Post
    You're right - a preposition is a poor choice of words to end a sentence with.
    Yes, and ending a sentence with a proposition can get you slapped!


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    There are a lot of solutions out there. I've used Constant Contact in the past but switched to using Amazon's Simple Email Service http://aws.amazon.com/ses/ due to the cost (10 cents per 1000 emails + data costs if you exceed 1 GB per month).

    Despite the name, Amazon's service took some figuring out to get it up and running but saved buckets of cash compared to Constant Contact.



 

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