Unless your motorhome gets 70 MPG, I doubt there even 290 people looking for one, well enough 290K. Sucks with teeth, but in these trying economic times....
I've had this shoved down my mouth before. The best "solution" I was able to come up on short notice on no budget was to setup a standalone SMTP server and let it rip. Pissed me off to no end, but I had no choice. Ideally, you would contract with a 3rd party vendor to handle this trash for you. Eventually we got reamed by our ISP enough to stop. I would advise you to take a look at the AUP of your internet provider. Chances are they have a no unsolicited email rule for your pipe. If you get called to the carpet, you will be forced to prove that people opted in and its usually a double opt in rule, so unless you have emails or clicks on a website that say "[EMAIL PROTECTED] approves", you could get your internet canceled. -----Original Message----- From: Troy Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:19 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Super fun question Ok our BRILLIANT marketing team just called and said they have a list of 290K email addresses they want to send a mass email to (supposedly these are 'leeeeds'). I said fat chance as I don't want to deal with the fallout of landing on a BL. Management kickback is, "How many email do you think we can send at once without risking any type of negative backlash?" >From their mouths, these are opt-in people who submitted their email to our company requesting more info (yeah right, 290k people want to know more about a $700,000 motorhome.) What do you all think? I say that our corporate mail systems are not designed for this type of behavior and don't really feel comfortable with any large amounts of mass email (but using a 3rd party marketing company costs money...) Anyone else deal with this? -Troy ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
