Hi,
I haven't read this entire thread so I apologize in advance if I'm offbase here, but I thought I'd mention a couple things as you are new to SmartList.
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, B & A wrote:
Charlie,
I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to help. But why you feel the need to spend five paragraphs chastising me for doing things wrong when I
I've been subscribed to this list since at least 1994. Be happy, the list used to be populated with many Charlies at once!;)
business. YES, I know I'm doing things wrong. NO, I don't particularly want to deal with this but I've gotten quotes for $350 - $1750 for hosting my mailing list. I send A LOT of mail.... 326,000 pieces at 17k each in a month, to be exact. I don't know how much money you make but in my book that isn't cheap.
To be honest, SmartList isn't your best choice for a mailing list that size. You will be inundated with all sorts of daemon messages in your mailbox regarding things like 'message undelivered after 4 hours, will keep trying the 5 days', etc. All stuff that requires you to read but there is nothing you can do about it. Also, SmartList out of the box uses Sendmail which will just choke and provide you endless troubles unless you are just delivering individual emails. And generally speaking, SmartList does not work out of the box as advertized. The bounced email unsubscribe routine only works under very strict circumstances, your email box will be regularly filled with bouncing email addresses you will have to remove by hand...the list goes on.
SmartList is good if you are a hacker and like to fix it and otherwise customize it to suit your needs, it is not an install and go kind of solution for anything.
I have hacked my SmartList to be suitable for situations like yours and have the bandwidth, but bandwidth is not cheap as well as keeping servers up 24X7.
Good luck,
--Paul T. Cueman
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