Greetings, I hope this is not too OT, hopefully someone here has had a similar experience and can offer some practical advice, I'm not sure what to tell this customer at this point.
I have a customer who has a fairly large opt-in only mailman mailing list (~40,000 subscribers) that they use to send out a weekly newsletter, people seem to primarily subscribe for the weekly contest for free tickets to events. Unsubscribe links are conspicuous, and people who otherwise complain are unsubscribed from the list. Recently, they moved their web hosting to a new service, and the new service shut down their website because they had received "too many complaints" about the newsletter, which mentions the website address. I would have thought it would be easier to follow the unsubscribe link than track down the hosting company for the website, which makes me wonder if these "complaints" are being generated by some kind of antispam software. The host forwarded a "sample" but stripped out some of the message headers, so all I can tell is that it really was in response to the newsletter. Now the web host is talking about requiring that all of the subscribers be required to "opt in" again or be unsubscribed from the list--to be honest, that might not be a bad idea, but the customer wants to avoid this. Has anyone else run into a situation like this and have some practical advice? They have been asking me about technical ways to circumvent the problem, but that sounds like a really bad idea to me for several reasons, I don't want to be a party to that. I'm wondering if they should just say to heck with this hosting company, but the customer is concerned that moving to yet another ISP is going to be just as painful a process as it was moving to this one, and I am not entirely sure that they wouldn't run into the same "complaint" problem with another host. Thanks, Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
