Re: OT Broadcast email help

[Lawrence Kwan]

On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Rob Studdert wrote:

I have a friend who only has web mail access but needs to broadcast to around
450 email recipients periodically. Does anyone know which web base email would
be the best to facilitate the task? Is Gmail up to it? Any help would be
appreciated.


Hi Rob, here's another option.  Use the mailing list feature of 
groups.yahoo.com


It is quite flexible, you can enter all the email addresses to the group, 
and you can set it up so that only the group owner or moderator can post 
to the group. And this should work well for your friend, and he can post 
from anywhere.


Gmail will not work, as it will lock your account if "suspicious" activity 
is detected.


Lawrence


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Re: OT Broadcast email help

[Cotty]

On 8/6/05, Rob Studdert, discombobulated, unleashed:

>Thanks for the info guys. The problem is that this person doesn't have a
>fixed 
>ISP account and they are often travelling so they use a web based email
>service 
>from any handy internet cafe. Currently the list contains 450 names and it's 
>not growing too fast, however Yahoo limits the B'cast to 90 emails per hour, 
>you can imagine what kind of a pain that would be if you were working
through 
>an Internet-cafe.

My Mac.com account allows me to use a standalone pop3 email app *or* web-
based from anywhere to send/receive email and attachments. I have had no
problems with bulk emails, although nowhere near 450.



Free trial available.




Cheers,
  Cotty


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RE: OT Broadcast email help

[Markus Maurer]

Hi Rob
but would it not be easier then to delegate this mass email sending job to a
friend with a normal pop account and a fixed computer installation?
And I saw lately that there is software to download from web mail via pop, I
think it was even freeware.
greetings
Markus



>>
>>Thanks for the info guys. The problem is that this person doesn't
>>have a fixed
>>ISP account and they are often travelling so they use a web based
>>email service
>>from any handy internet cafe. Currently the list contains 450
>>names and it's
>>not growing too fast, however Yahoo limits the B'cast to 90
>>emails per hour,
>>you can imagine what kind of a pain that would be if you were
>>working through
>>an Internet-cafe.
>>
>>
>>Rob Studdert

Re: OT Broadcast email help

[John Francis]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 09:26:22AM +1000, Rob Studdert wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info guys. The problem is that this person doesn't have a 
> fixed 
> ISP account and they are often travelling so they use a web based email 
> service 
> from any handy internet cafe. Currently the list contains 450 names and it's 
> not growing too fast, however Yahoo limits the B'cast to 90 emails per hour, 
> you can imagine what kind of a pain that would be if you were working through 
> an Internet-cafe.

There's absolutely no need to tie your processing to your access point.

At present I'm connected to the net via my local ISP (Earthlink, in San Jose),
but the machine I'm using to prepare this message is located in New York.

When I'm travelling I can either use a pay-as-you-go internet connection
(such as the one I have in the UK through Virgin.net), or use an internet
cafe (or any other method of getting on to the 'net, such as a friend's
machine).  Then I can still connect to my panix account in New York, and
work in a familiar environment no matter wher I may be, physically.

RE: OT Broadcast email help

[Rob Studdert]

On 8 Jun 2005 at 1:17, Markus Maurer wrote:

> Hi Graywolf
> yes, and you can do that also with an inexpensive database feeding email
> addresses to word or another text processor for a serial letter for example.
> Then one mail after the other is sent.

Thanks for the info guys. The problem is that this person doesn't have a fixed 
ISP account and they are often travelling so they use a web based email service 
from any handy internet cafe. Currently the list contains 450 names and it's 
not growing too fast, however Yahoo limits the B'cast to 90 emails per hour, 
you can imagine what kind of a pain that would be if you were working through 
an Internet-cafe.


Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel +61-2-9554-4110
UTC(GMT)  +10 Hours
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/
Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998

RE: OT Broadcast email help

[Markus Maurer]

Hi Graywolf
yes, and you can do that also with an inexpensive database feeding email
addresses to word or another text processor for a serial letter for example.
Then one mail after the other is sent.

greetings
Markus


>>-Original Message-
>>From: Graywolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:50 AM
>>To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
>>Subject: Re: OT Broadcast email help
>>
>>
>>One of the problems nowadays is that many ISP's are filtering
>>anything with more than 10 recipients as Spam. Serious mailing
>>list software does send an independent email to each list member
>>however which gets around that.
>>

Re: OT Broadcast email help

[Graywolf]

One of the problems nowadays is that many ISP's are filtering anything with 
more than 10 recipients as Spam. Serious mailing list software does send an 
independent email to each list member however which gets around that.

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Markus Maurer wrote:

Hi Rob
the problem I see is that most internet solution provider will not tell you
explicit what their limit is for mass emails.
You should be save if you do not send more than 50 emails at once and not
more than 3 mailings in an hour. This is
a value I have found to work with most ISP here in Switzerland. But again,
you will not see this information anywhere
on their websites or in their contracts and they may change things often too
:-(

greetings
Markus





-Original Message-
From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 4:15 PM
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: OT Broadcast email help


Hi Team,

I have a quick question that hopefully someone here will furnish
a solution to.

I have a friend who only has web mail access but needs to
broadcast to around
450 email recipients periodically. Does anyone know which web
base email would
be the best to facilitate the task? Is Gmail up to it? Any help would be
appreciated.

Cheers,


Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel +61-2-9554-4110
UTC(GMT)  +10 Hours
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/
Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998










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RE: OT Broadcast email help

[Markus Maurer]

Hi Rob
the problem I see is that most internet solution provider will not tell you
explicit what their limit is for mass emails.
You should be save if you do not send more than 50 emails at once and not
more than 3 mailings in an hour. This is
a value I have found to work with most ISP here in Switzerland. But again,
you will not see this information anywhere
on their websites or in their contracts and they may change things often too
:-(

greetings
Markus



>>-Original Message-
>>From: Rob Studdert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 4:15 PM
>>To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
>>Subject: OT Broadcast email help
>>
>>
>>Hi Team,
>>
>>I have a quick question that hopefully someone here will furnish
>>a solution to.
>>
>>I have a friend who only has web mail access but needs to
>>broadcast to around
>>450 email recipients periodically. Does anyone know which web
>>base email would
>>be the best to facilitate the task? Is Gmail up to it? Any help would be
>>appreciated.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>
>>Rob Studdert
>>HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
>>Tel +61-2-9554-4110
>>UTC(GMT)  +10 Hours
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/
>>Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
>>
>>

Re: OT Broadcast email help

[mike wilson]

Rob Studdert wrote:

Hi Team,

I have a quick question that hopefully someone here will furnish a solution to.

I have a friend who only has web mail access but needs to broadcast to around 
450 email recipients periodically. Does anyone know which web base email would 
be the best to facilitate the task? Is Gmail up to it? Any help would be 
appreciated.


Cheers,


Rob Studdert
HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA
Tel +61-2-9554-4110
UTC(GMT)  +10 Hours
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/
Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998



No reply to this in my mailbox so for, so (as I don't know the answer to 
your question) I have to ask:  why only access to webmail?


mike