Re:WebCat for mass emailings

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1997

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texte = >We have WebCat set up to function as a pseudo-listserver. It is sending>out snow reports for ski areas. The problem is that Emailer crawls>through them. We are currently sending out to about 1500 addresses, and>it is taking over an hour to get all those emails out (and that is just>one ski area). Would we be better off just running it through ListStar?>Will ListStar perform faster?>>Also, can ListStar function with EIMS?>>Any ideas how we could have the Listserv handled by another server>(UNIX), while we still maintain control of the list with WebCat?>>Thanks.>>Trevor Crist>http://www.digitalfrontier.comListStar is a lot smarter about sending in groups instead of individualfiles -- if that is appropriate - like all to one domain... There aretemplates with Typhoon - that certainly work with WebCat - for maintaininga ListStar db... works great for what you are talking about...Also -- you could make multiple Emailers and have lots of them all sendingat the same time -- RAIC style, but it would be RAIE....Jay Van Vark *******************************Pacific Coast Software | eCommerce (WebCatalog)11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | Site Hosting & DevelopmentSuite 453 | http://www.smithmicro.comSan Diego, CA 92128 *******************************619.675.1106** PGP key available upon request. ** Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re:WebCat for mass emailings (Jay Van Vark 1997)

>We have WebCat set up to function as a pseudo-listserver. It is sending>out snow reports for ski areas. The problem is that Emailer crawls>through them. We are currently sending out to about 1500 addresses, and>it is taking over an hour to get all those emails out (and that is just>one ski area). Would we be better off just running it through ListStar?>Will ListStar perform faster?>>Also, can ListStar function with EIMS?>>Any ideas how we could have the Listserv handled by another server>(UNIX), while we still maintain control of the list with WebCat?>>Thanks.>>Trevor Crist>http://www.digitalfrontier.comListStar is a lot smarter about sending in groups instead of individualfiles -- if that is appropriate - like all to one domain... There aretemplates with Typhoon - that certainly work with WebCat - for maintaininga ListStar db... works great for what you are talking about...Also -- you could make multiple Emailers and have lots of them all sendingat the same time -- RAIC style, but it would be RAIE....Jay Van Vark *******************************Pacific Coast Software | eCommerce (WebCatalog)11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | Site Hosting & DevelopmentSuite 453 | http://www.smithmicro.comSan Diego, CA 92128 *******************************619.675.1106** PGP key available upon request. ** Jay Van Vark

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