One email is going to a list/database of over 50,000 people who are part of an organization. Do you or your company have any preferred solution for handling this kind of mass distribution without being seen as spam or overloading your office computers with returned emails?

(if 1/3 of the email addresses were defunct, that'd be a lot of mailer-daimon emails to filter out of your inbox the next morning.....)


Ideas?

I'm doing my google research, believe me. Just trolling the TWWaters for professional ideas, though. Thanks!

10/11/2006 5:28:26 PM

listserv or groups, a'la Yahoo/Google Groups

10/11/2006 6:00:33 PM

Who's your host? Most of those guys usually have some sort of opt-in mailing system that filters out hte dead address and helps keep you legal regarding spam.

Better yet, with that kind of volume, I'd say this is something that probably should be farmed out to someone who deals with this fulltime.

10/11/2006 6:14:57 PM

http://www.atlanticbt.com/

is our host, and to my knowledge- volume of that nature is not really "provided" in any easily manageable solution... without a third party application... a listserv could definitely be the answer, but I don't think yahoo/goog/groups is ready for that type of volume either, though I could be wrong...

The real cup of SUCK comes when you use the third party app to send from an address and many of the emails bounce back... I dunno... just curious what you guys think

10/11/2006 6:32:15 PM

Mailman
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html

10/11/2006 7:04:36 PM

^

10/11/2006 7:14:41 PM

You could do this in about a dozen lines of PHP.

10/11/2006 11:47:48 PM

http://www.bronto.com

10/12/2006 7:13:19 AM

lol you can do this with like 2 lines of perl

10/12/2006 7:41:25 AM

I CAN DO IT IN 1 LINE

10/12/2006 9:03:15 AM

AH if i was only as l33t as you crackheads I wouldn't have to post this


thanks for the suggestions, guys, I'm looking into them

10/12/2006 9:19:35 AM

http://www.intellicontact.com/

The CEO is a 20year old dropout from UNC that has already made more money than you ever will. If you can get past that, they can probably do what you want.

(He seemed like a nice enough guy when I met him, though.)

10/12/2006 11:00:01 AM

We use Bronto here, but I think the cost is better justified by regular use, e.g. our newsletter.

10/12/2006 11:02:21 AM