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Andy Smith wrote:
Hi Simon, On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:03:46AM +0000, Simon Williams wrote:Andy Smith wrote:I know email is small, but bandwidth isn't the problem. It never is. The problem is that people do things like block outgoing port 25, and then limit the amount of outgoing mail via their SMTP server. Both are justified I guess, but it doesn't help much if you're running a list.Email is very low bandwidth so I think you would find it extremely difficult to use up even a stingy data transfer allowance when sending 8,000 emails a month.In my experience these setups are only present on consumer broadband connections.
Or shared web hosting, which is what I'm trying to put it on.They currently use Outlook macros to send out via the btinternet smtp server, and they don't seem to mind the volume of email (it's actually a residential connection). But it would be a lot easier if I could put the mailing list in the same place as the website, since the website needs to be able to update it.
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