Sending out e-mails to 115,000 opt in mail addresses

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Sending out e-mails to 115,000 opt in mail addresses

greedy player

8:09 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

How do I go about the most legit form of sending mails to all 115,000 opt-in mails.

Of course I would of tried to send e-mails but hotmail doesn't really like 'spam' as they'd call it.

However this to me is not spam, I want to write a newsletter to my members and read on the net this is the most succesfuly way of keeping your users informed and coming back for more, am I wrong?

Regards,
GP

willybfriendly

8:43 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

There are mass email scripts available. Do a search.

I have used both DaDa Mail and PHPList. Each hs certain strenths and weaknesses.

You can also contract the work out.

115,000 emails will tie up server resources for a fairly long time.

pageoneresults

8:44 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

Use a third party service that is sending from servers that are trusted.

greedy player

9:08 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the replies, I require more information about trusted... sending emails from my own domain ip could land in spam and lose all ability of sending mails ( this will suck )

pageoneresults

9:36 pm on Oct 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

Here's a previous related topic that you mind find of benefit...

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and another...

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hunderdown

5:22 pm on Oct 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

Are they double opt-in? Have you ever verified them? I suspect many will turn out to be phony or no longer in use.

That's a lot of email addresses. Whether you serve them with mustard or ketchup, many hosts will still see them as spam, I'm sorry to say.

Pengi

7:20 pm on Oct 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

Personally I consider any e-mail I receive that is posted to more than one or 2 people or appears to be "mass produced" to be spam.

Sounds to me as if hotmail have it right.

E-mails like this make many people's lives a misery. Do you really have something important to tell 115,000 people?

Bddmed

7:24 pm on Oct 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

What is it you would like to tell your 115,000 opt-ins? Maybe if we know we can advise you about if it's spam or beeing greedy.

tke71709

7:31 pm on Oct 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Personally I consider any e-mail I receive that is posted to more than one or 2 people or appears to be "mass produced" to be spam.
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So you would consider any newsletter that you signed up for to be spam and would want it to be treated that way?

I guess you're the guy who hits the spam button on his AOL account after he gets an e-mail newsletter that he specifically opted into and then e-mails the site owner to complain that he isn't getting his newsletter.

Pengi

8:16 pm on Oct 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

No - thats why I don't generally subscribe to newsletters. Those that I do receive I don't count as spam.

But I do receive unsolicited "newsletters" even when I've explicitly opted out.

You will notice the the OP didn't say "newsletter" and experience of GPs postings elsewhere suggest that the name maybe appropriate.

ann

10:42 pm on Oct 26, 2006 (gmt 0)

That seems like an awful lot of opt ins. I would feel it is more spam than anything else unless you have actual site news to tell them.

Walks like a duck, smells like a duck, must be spam.

Ann

andrewshim

1:14 am on Oct 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

Walks like a duck, smells like a duck, must be spam.

yep.

david_uk

8:14 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

I bought the same cd of guaranteed double-opt-in email addies off ebay. Most of them bounced.

Being serious for a moment, I have to say that like the others I sort of query what's going on here. Like most people, I have a very effective spam filter. Even if the people you are sending these emails to have no spam filtration, if they use one of the bigger ISP's or yahoo / hotmail / msn they will end up in the spam bucket and never read.