Re: Duplicates
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17774
interpreted = N
texte = At 10:55 PM 5/18/98, Brian B. Burton wrote:>Sorry, I should have been more specific with my request.>I have a database with 4 fields. ID, Email, adddate, promostatus..>This will be used to send out mass mailings of specials and site>announcements.>(you have to sign up on the site, no spam.) Anyway, I want to check for>duplicate email addresses, because whiny people pop up out of the wood work>if heaven forbid they should get 2 copies of a piece of email. While I am>writing the areas to manually enter names into the database to prevent>duplicates, occasionally bulk names (from the companies accounting system)>will be dumped in, and I want to run this as a preventative measure.If you're using Emailer to send out your bulk e-mail, you can eliminateduplicates at send time by including Emailsumm=t in your search parameters.This won't remove the duplicates from the database, but should solve yourproblem.-Daveo--------------- Dave MacLeay --+o----------- Digital Frontier --+o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+
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At 10:55 PM 5/18/98, Brian B. Burton wrote:>Sorry, I should have been more specific with my request.>I have a database with 4 fields. ID, Email, adddate, promostatus..>This will be used to send out mass mailings of specials and site>announcements.>(you have to sign up on the site, no spam.) Anyway, I want to check for>duplicate email addresses, because whiny people pop up out of the wood work>if heaven forbid they should get 2 copies of a piece of email. While I am>writing the areas to manually enter names into the database to prevent>duplicates, occasionally bulk names (from the companies accounting system)>will be dumped in, and I want to run this as a preventative measure.If you're using Emailer to send out your bulk e-mail, you can eliminateduplicates at send time by including Emailsumm=t in your search parameters.This won't remove the duplicates from the database, but should solve yourproblem.-Daveo--------------- Dave MacLeay --+o----------- Digital Frontier --+o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+
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