[TriLUG] OT: Google advertising for spammers?

[Scott Lambdin]

So they just send out newsletters for organizations.  Not exactly a bold new
concept.

I want to hire people to mow rich peoples lawns.  Where is my $40Million?

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Reginald Reed <reginald.reed at gmail.com>wrote:

> Disclaimer:  I don't know how any of these company's systems work
> internally.
>
> My fraternity uses ConstantContact for communicating with our
> membership.  What I know of that specific service, the company doesn't
> dictate when email communications are sent out, it is completely up to
> the subscriber.  In general, people probably want stuff to go out as
> soon as it's ready - this is certainly the case with my fraternity, be
> a notification of national magazine is available, key developments
> with the organization, updates, etc.  Our membership *wants* that and
> ConstantContact delivers.
>
> So it *may* be unfair to look at these companies for their content
> delivery schedules.  That said, as a person that has administered
> email for non-profits with similar non-existent budgets, I feel for
> your pain!
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Douglas Ward <dward at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> > As an e-mail server admin who is not on these lists they are still a pain
> in
> > my bandwidth.  iContact (and the other companies listed in this thread)
> host
> > large mailing lists that basically include my entire user base.  A few
> > messages from these guys and there could be as many as a few thousand
> > messages in my queues in a few seconds.  I wish they would throttle their
> > output to one domain.  I'm sure weekly (or daily) newsletters  or
> whatever
> > they are sending isn't so critical that it has to be in someone's inbox
> > immediately.  It would also be nice if they dumped their load (no pun
> > intended) at night instead of right in the middle of our business hours.
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