[ilugd] [OT] Sending bulk mails
Hi, I wanted to send bulk mails. A lot of 'em. Nearly 3million. The contents of email will remain static most likely. I doubt that after few hundreds of mails, gmail, yahoo etc will start treating them spam. How can I send such number of emails without getting spammed? Also, I would be sending these mails from Amazon EC2 (most likely), but I am seeing that almost all of the IP addresses that belong to EC2 are in spamhaus list :( any good solution for this? ). Thanks and regards -- Shamail Tayyab Blog: http://shamail.in/blog ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OT] Sending bulk mails
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Shamail Tayyab writes: Hi, I wanted to send bulk mails. A lot of 'em. Nearly 3million. The contents of email will remain static most likely. I doubt that after few hundreds of mails, gmail, yahoo etc will start treating them spam. There are guidelines by Gmail[1], Y![2][3], and maybe others. Try figuring out what they're and comply with them. Usually, they include an opt-out link, DKIM signatures, SPF, etc. How can I send such number of emails without getting spammed? Also, I would be sending these mails from Amazon EC2 (most likely), but I am seeing that almost all of the IP addresses that belong to EC2 are in spamhaus list :( any good solution for this? ). Sign-up for an account with a MTA provider, and GIYF. References: [1] https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=81126 [2] http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/basics/postmaster-15.html [3] http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html HTH - -- Ashish SHUKLA | GPG: F682 CDCC 39DC 0FEA E116 20B6 C746 CFA9 E74F A4B0 freebsd.org!ashish | http://people.freebsd.org/~ashish/ “Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.” (Robert A. Heinlein, 1973) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJMRtPJAAoJEMdGz6nnT6SwmLYQAKgmUGZUnUf2di9u37SW+aaX qoyfNHijjWE8942M7s5BWWKewsOX0XzV6q39Q2JjgfVNP5+miZkH1rQ0ZM0KgEa0 BV6TVlx0bUnFuMU4U/67Ce6IAF4zwdCM6UJjh2YdK1eyIVrzc9Xci3Tie/0lFXAb rqDP3TLmExwePn0K9pKmo0huG5WOeqOcT0AZQ2BpF3tLxvmvCTNLmhRsToiqoDjJ GACgZj46iaRIjgNGe+tvzcvuAJAMQ2ziuQTKCtJES3Jhx9DxGihTqIYCKedP3+8e 2ag9YB/abyy8mq2hcP6J3FzZS8FndMkvO5KJO9VPLKwyT1XoUtTCB5GqTnIwZQ++ Hx1a60ghkBeD86JXoCGfjAB9pcmKlfGVJMeeO8QBE5VYutlRcYZ5L6fcJJqNqcyy tBWzfYsNTuE/ShgdeMD3JN4YqrHGzmGjlnKht15vbTHzQQl8Wdwy4q83d1pMtTw0 Wj3Y8I8JiKlC1+q1qrLB45Bp0uEFa75d7T/G8zEDnjUXK8a5iqqnOv4PtwKIpkEY X+F31uIfW8pHrOFqoSkmbk00Eo2DRuICpGFMRryri5xH6gnIv/bj7sjZ01FqiOzC TZ3beWxkXlgqtKOEoyH4jEdcVRS6d2lBtvKDTAFdIP0OPsqxZVf65mCY3IpGflx7 89bBLOABEGauXw7fp4Wm =U6s7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] google docs vs openoffice-in-the-cloud
2010/7/18 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org On Sunday 18 Jul 2010, H.S.Rai wrote: 2010/7/18 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org: any viable alternative to Google Docs has to present an interface that has a minimal learning curve. Don't http://eyeos.org/ fit the bill? Now /this/ looks hot! Thanks for the link. sizzling in the wet monsoon actually. it's matured quite a lot since i last checked it out indeed. so what next, host this on the ilug-d or a nixi or other server for ilug-d / FOSS users in india, where the community may author and collaborate documents they wish the community to participate in? this way we keep those cages-in-the-cloud out of our mailing lists and efforts? do need to add some method of attributing creativecommons licenses to authored and collaborated works. note of caution: ilug-d is 100% reliable when it comes to unreliability, as well as for .1% downtime, so a disclaimer and a non-amazon backup-storage of crucial documents would also be a good idea. regards niyam Regards, -- Raju -- -- niyam bhushan ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Rupee font in open format
money is a very funny thing. if you discover you have a fake or a torn note in your pocket along with a perfectly legit and crisp one, you'd be tempted to use the first one immediately. people talk about the relative worthlessness of a small denomination, especially if it is heavily soiled. that is, until you drop it on the street and watch how suddenly and swiftly it disappears. the new rupee symbol will first make it to coins and currency-notes, and as pointed out by others, in use by the media and press, so dedicated unicode code-point or not, this thing is here to stay. the digital-world may take its own sweet time for acceptance at its own peril. we may have our issues with proprietary font-standards, and with font-use licenses, with font-encoding standards, but this is going to be one ugly mess. end-users are already going to accept the glyph, literally at face-value, etched and embossed on coins, printed on bank documents, used in advertising and sales. the semantics should be sorted out by the Year 2038, hopefully, beyond which we would probably have bigger problems to worry about. regards niyam ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] MTS MBlaze woes
Hi all I bought a MTS MBlaze connection recently.The good thing i found about the ZTE USB modem that came along, is that it has got a dedicated user-guide for linux based OSes. It works out of the box on 32-bit distros. But i upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit) and now i got to configure wvdial for it. The user-guide gives all the parameters needed in wvdial.conf, but somehow the modem still doesn't work. This ZTE device also acts as a mass storage device. My OS is detecting it only as a storage device, and not as a modem, so no /dev/ttyUSBx is found. Anyone using MBlaze without any hassles or knows a workaround? -- Sahil Dave ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] MTS MBlaze woes
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Sahil Dave sahil.dav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all I bought a MTS MBlaze connection recently.The good thing i found about the ZTE USB modem that came along, is that it has got a dedicated user-guide for linux based OSes. It works out of the box on 32-bit distros. But i upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit) and now i got to configure wvdial for it. The user-guide gives all the parameters needed in wvdial.conf, but somehow the modem still doesn't work. This ZTE device also acts as a mass storage device. My OS is detecting it only as a storage device, and not as a modem, so no /dev/ttyUSBx is found. Anyone using MBlaze without any hassles or knows a workaround? snip I do not have the device you are using, but had similar problems with my MTNL 3G usb data card. Switching from storage device to modem can be done with the usb_modeswitch package. This is automated, and updating to 1.12 and above solved the problem for me. The great thing is that it integrates easily with NetworkManager, allowing one to specify different APN's. Historical note: On both a fresh install of Fedora 13 and on Ubuntu 10.04, the version does not work automatically, requiring manual settings, tweeking, and multiple restarts. During those days of frustration, what did work was the Sakis3G script[2], which seems quite self contained. Andrew. [1] http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ [2] http://www.sakis3g.org/ ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] recommendation for a video capture / TV Tuner card
I am looking for a video capture card (composite Audio/Video - three wire RCA connectors - yellow, red, white) or TV Tuner card (RF) that is supported in Linux. Please share brand/model if you have purchased something (@ Lam Road) within the past 6 months or so and works for you in Linux. (I realize bttv chip set is well supported however it is difficult to find out the chip set without opening the box which the vendors typically do not allow). TIA -- Arun Khan ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
