Re: FN-FORUM: Mailing list app recommendation

date posted 10th January 2005 12:41

Mailman. You know it makes sense (you listening FN Admins? :-)


On 10 Jan 2005 13:37:40 -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> the lists I manage are either in txty, csv, excel other DB's can be used
> with gammadyne.
>
> gammadyne is a great program as it will produce a report on sent mail
> those that are bad, failed, returned ect, I never found an online
> php/mysql that did this, plus I was never convinced that all mail would be
> sent eg, sometimes a timeout would occur. where in the list was the send
> in operation!
>
> I guess this is more of a reporting issue than a program reliability
> although they go hand in hand.
>
> managing the lists in any format isn't so much of a pain as not knowing
> that all 3k+ are receing the mail sent out
>
>
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
> >> Sent: 10 January 2005 12:42
> >> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> >> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Mailing list app recommendation
> >>
> >> Is this to use on a website?
> >>
> >> I have looked at many over the years and concluded that the
> >> most relaible way to mail to a prescribed list was to have
> >> control locally, store email and other contact info locally
> >> and send from the program locally ( i used to use bulkmail
> >> now gammadyne both free or nearly free (personalised fields etc).
> >>
> >> Unless you pay for a commercial piece of software there is
> >> little point in using this type of setup (my opinion of course)
> >>
> >> Andrew
> >
> > Andrew,
> >
> > If you have any more detail on how you came to that conclusion I would
> > be grateful - e.g. what do you man by reliable? I have one client who
> > uses a simple web-based mailing list tool that is becoming stretched but
> > would not want to tell them to go 'manual' without understanding why
> > that would be a better choice? For example would it be a better choice
> > for a tech illiterate or is it just a good choice for you because you
> > know what you are doing?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dai
> >
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