Ham list

[Stephen]

Also I would at the very least get a listserv running with that volume
majordomo comes to mind

An it will have an pot in and put as well as anounce only lists


On 7/2/09, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 19:11 -0700, Trent Shipley wrote:
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>> I have a friend, a belly dancer, who has an opt-in ham list with roughly
>>  1000 addresses.  (Of course, with 1000 subscribers a lot of people will
>> consider the mailing spam, but won't ask to be removed from the
>> list....)  She has divided the list into sub-list of 50-75 addresses.
>> Recently her mail often doesn't go through to many of the subscribers.
>> The hypothesis is that she has been classified as a spammer.  Moving
>> from Cox to Gmail hasn't helped much.
>>
>> I am particularly concerned that the anti-Spam filters may be analyzing
>> her newsletter and announcement content, and she may be thoroughly hosed.
>>
>> What can she do to regain access to the email communication channel?
>> She regards it as vital to marketing her business.
>>
>> She is considering subscribing to the services of Constant Contact or
>> iContact.  Would that work.  Would it be worth the price.  I'd be
>> willing to put two or three weekends into solving her problem, but that
>> would be about it.  Even then any solution would have to be one she
>> could understand and maintain with only a modest investment in non-core
>> skills (core skills are dancing and physical therapy school).
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> any time you try to run any type of e-mail communication system, you
> have to have some 'control' accounts to verify deliver, spam scores,
> etc.
>
> So the first thing to do is always include at least one control account
> with each batch. This control account must reside on a server that has a
> very active/effective spam control system and report in the headers so
> you can see how it is scored. When you the spamassassin scoring, it
> should become obvious what needs to be changed. This system should also
> have some of the typical RBL's too.
>
> I think you are making a mistake in just assuming that the origin of her
> e-mail is the issue.
>
> Craig
>
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