Re: Email Newsletters

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 47414
interpreted = N
texte = Flagging every email as junk with a $ is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of, what happens if you want to receive a quote from someone or receive your email receipt from an online purchase?DonOn 2/4/03 10:33 AM, Jeff Logan wrote:> By the content inside. We use Postini for spam and email filtering > and if you have a $ in a message it gets flagged as spam. Email spam > filters like Postini have are so good that almost 99% of all junk > mail never makes it to me know. > > Jeff Logan > >> What if you actually send a personalized mail to every single >> customer you have? How will that be filtered? >> >> Gy >> >>> OT: >>> Prediction: you are wasting your time. by the end of the year 2003 >>> every ISP will bow to economic pressures and install intelligent >>> adaptive spam filters on the main ISP mail servers, filtering out >>> all commercial email, opt-in or not. Response rates will drop to >>> the point no one will be willing to pay for sending out mass email, >>> and the only people who will continue to do so will be the ones who >>> don't have to pay to send out emails (i.e. spammers, not your >>> paying customers.) >>> >>> >> -- >> Gyuri Ordody >> Objects Online, Inc.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Email Newsletters (Stuart Tremain 2003)
  2. Re: Email Newsletters (Alain Russell 2003)
  3. Re: Email Newsletters (Timur Ruban 2003)
  4. Re: Email Newsletters (Clint Davis 2003)
  5. Re: Email Newsletters (WJ Starck 2003)
  6. Re: Email Newsletters (Timur Ruban 2003)
  7. Re: Email Newsletters [OT] (Clint Davis 2003)
  8. Re: Email Newsletters [OT] (Gyuri 2003)
  9. Re: Email Newsletters (Alex McCombie 2003)
  10. Re: Email Newsletters (Don 2003)
  11. Re: Email Newsletters (Clint Davis 2003)
  12. Re: Email Newsletters (Brian B. Burton 2003)
  13. Re: Email Newsletters (Jeff Logan 2003)
  14. Re: Email Newsletters (Gyuri 2003)
  15. Re: Email Newsletters (Alain Russell 2003)
  16. Re: Email Newsletters (Brian B. Burton 2003)
  17. Re: Email Newsletters (Clint Davis 2003)
  18. Re: Email Newsletters (Alex McCombie 2003)
  19. Re: Email Newsletters (Jeff Logan 2003)
  20. Email Newsletters (Clint Davis 2003)
Flagging every email as junk with a $ is the stupidest thing I've ever heard of, what happens if you want to receive a quote from someone or receive your email receipt from an online purchase?DonOn 2/4/03 10:33 AM, Jeff Logan wrote:> By the content inside. We use Postini for spam and email filtering > and if you have a $ in a message it gets flagged as spam. Email spam > filters like Postini have are so good that almost 99% of all junk > mail never makes it to me know. > > Jeff Logan > >> What if you actually send a personalized mail to every single >> customer you have? How will that be filtered? >> >> Gy >> >>> OT: >>> Prediction: you are wasting your time. by the end of the year 2003 >>> every ISP will bow to economic pressures and install intelligent >>> adaptive spam filters on the main ISP mail servers, filtering out >>> all commercial email, opt-in or not. Response rates will drop to >>> the point no one will be willing to pay for sending out mass email, >>> and the only people who will continue to do so will be the ones who >>> don't have to pay to send out emails (i.e. spammers, not your >>> paying customers.) >>> >>> >> -- >> Gyuri Ordody >> Objects Online, Inc.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Don

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