Re: mailing list software
Re: mailing list software
- Subject: Re: mailing list software
- From: Melanie Schoenfeld <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:22:21 -0700
On Dec 31, 2004, at 10:34 AM, Jerry King wrote:
At Naples MUG we have had problems using these products. Not because
of the product but because the ISPs we have limit the number of
messages at a time and the number of messages in a 24 hour period.
The ISPs are Comcast and also Earthlink
As a result, message groups have had to be kept in the under 4 dozen
addresses at a time.
Using LetterRip, you can easily set both the number of recipients per
message and the count for each domain (ISP). (In short, LetterRip will
break the list up into any bite-sized pieces the ISPs require.) We send
to Earthlink and Comcast with no difficulty.
We ARE, however, completely blocked by AOL and Compuserve (which is
owned and run by AOL), but that has nothing to do with LetterRip, but
rather with the fact that we don't host our own domain. AOL doesn't
even allow LetterRip to connect to their servers, and no messages go
through. It's part of the way AOL is attempting to deal with spam,
which is evidently different from the way all other ISPs function,
because that is the only ISP we have any problem with. And we're a
pretty big club: the combined membership of the two UGs is about 2,500,
of whom perhaps a third use AOL.
I won't bore you with the details, but we have been round and round the
mulberry bush with AOL on this, working our way through a variety of
postmasters, and the best we could come up with for our AOL members was
to set up a web page where they can go to read the messages everyone
else receives in their inbox, and to suggest that they might want to
get a free email account, so that AOL can't prevent them from receiving
messages they have requested that we send them.
As I say, if we hosted our own domain, it (probably) wouldn't be a
problem, but we haven't wanted to do that yet. (Although it's so easy
with OS X, maybe next summer......)
Melanie
Melanie Schoenfeld
MacsWest chairperson & webmaster
email@hidden
http://www.macswest.org
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