[TriLUG] OT: Google advertising for spammers?

[Sean Korb]

Kind of brilliant, though.  It's a huge pain for most folks because
they use the wrong tools, or don't even use a tool.  They just keep
adding words to the To: line.  The secret is offering it to people as
a full service.  Just send names and/or automate name collection from
opt-in mechanisms, and the customer washes their hands of the dirty
work.

This is for people suffering with Outlook for a decade.  They don't
*know* that services like these have been around since last century.

This is the challenge: think of what you have been doing easily for
the last decade, but know that your roommate's dad still struggling
with it.  Automate it (using Linux, of course), make it scalable and
then offer it to your roommates dad as a service for a small fee.  Use
some cloud and SOAP buzz words, get your venture capital and it's all
win from there.  Don't hate the player, dude.  Hate the game.

And sign me up for a few shares of mowing for the elite.  I think that
one has legs :)

sean

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Scott Lambdin <lopaki at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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