Kevin,
Thanks for your reply. I agree that having separate interest lists is the
best way to handle it, but management at my place wanted to have it the
other way around: [practically] each recipient getting an e-mail with a
different content. I wish it could be as simple as a recipient being
subscribed to N lists, as I am with, say, Microsoft.
Still looking for a solution but I guess I will try Terry Fritts' hints. I
surmise that it will be extremely processor intensive, though.
Cheers,
Guy
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Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> The simplest implementation of anything like this is to have a
separate
> list for each item of interest. A local company of some 1,200 employees
> does this. They have a separate news letters for each department and for
> the various levels in the company. I don't know what mail program they
are
> using but the sign-up is all from a single page with check boxes for each
> desired item. Using one of the web based sign-ups from either Ipswitch or
> one of the third party offerings you should be able to replicate this.
>
> Kevin Childers
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Guy Isabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "IMail Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 5:39 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Personalized newsletters?
>
>
> > Greetings, IMail Forum members,
> >
> > I have been tasked with an "interesting challenge". I work for a large
> > Canadian university and our Development and Alumni Relations department
> > would like to send personalized newsletters once a month to about 50,000
> > constituents, each message averaging about 4 KB, thus about 200 MB to
> > deliver in total.
> >
> > For the sake of simplicity, assume that there are only 3 topics of
> interest:
> > A (Science), B (Sports) and C (Arts). In reality, it is more like 25
> > topics. Each recipient has notified the department of the topics in
which
> > they are interested. For instance: A+B, A+C, B only, etc.
> >
> > A colleague of mine is writing a program that will output a list that
will
> > have one row per recipient showing the e-mail address and their topic(s)
> of
> > choice. The program could also output a text file containing the
"collage"
> > of appropriate topical sections for each recipient, thus making
available
> > the entire body of the text to be sent to him/her.
> >
> > Three questions (for now!):
> >
> > 1. Is there a clever way in IMail Server 6.05a of using the list server
> > function, program aliases or perhaps IMAIL1.EXE in some combination to
> > achieve this?
> >
> > 2. Would writing another program that calls IMAIL1.EXE (or perhaps
> BLAT.EXE;
> > by the way, which one is more efficient?) that goes through the
list/table
> > created by the aforementioned program to e-mail each recipient with the
> > proper text body be a viable solution?
> >
> > 3. In either case, what hardware would you recommend for such a list
> server?
> > Which OS (Windows NT 4.0, W2K Server, W2K Advanced Server)?
> >
> > I know that LISTSERV in combination with LSMTP, both available from
L-Soft
> > International (http://www.lsoft.com/, specifically
> > http://www.lsoft.com/products/default.asp?item=listserv_database), could
> do
> > of on-the-fly mail merge and send to a single list of 50,000 recipients.
> > Unfortunately, this is not an option for us at the present time. We do
> have
> > LISTSERV but not LSMTP.
> >
> > Any advice and comments gratefully received :)
> >
> > Guy
> >
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> > Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >
> >
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