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On Thursday 01 Jan 2004 3:28 pm, paul wrote:
On this? Is it possible to have a page for campaigns where we can simply enter our e-mail address and name into a page and get this added to a text file, then this can be attached to any e-mails sent out to people,. that way we are not going to innundate someone with e-mails but send 1 e-mail with lots of signatures, For each campaign we would need a time limit, but
Generally, this method is far less effective than individual letters (snail mail, printed, letters). Mainly because it's obvious that the email has been generated automatically. (If you don't care enough to write your own letter, why should they care enough to read your automated complaint/proposal?) If someone receives a petition of signatures, it means a lot less than half the number of individual letters. How many people actually read newsletters? Same principle.
if we all agree on what the actual e-mail says its better than lots of e-mails which could easily just get ignored or delete, not to mention
A mass 'signed' email is MORE likely to get ignored (or trip a spam filter). Besides, how is the receiver to know that I haven't just added the entire DCLUG subscriber list to the note - there's no way of knowing that all the people listed have actually agreed to the contents, stating as much just makes it look more like spam. With no way of verifying email addresses, I could just use a random character generator with a judicious use of . and @ to create millions of unverifiable, meaningless names and email addresses. Anything at aol, hotmail, yahoo or tiscali etc. should do. (After all, that's the start of many a spamming career.)
problems with sending lots of e-mails with the same subject line, now that SPAM has been outlawed.
IMHO, email is a weak medium for such campaigns because it is very difficult to make a bulk email not look like spam. (If it wasn't so difficult, spammers would be the only winners.) -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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