remembrancebook — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:37:02 +0000

If you work as a consultant and visit another company to work on their computers, DON'T do a save of all their email addresses!

Greg K — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:15:33 +0000

And never forget that there are people that OPT IN for mailing lists that:

1. They did not realize they do it, ie signing up for something and not reading the fine print for a checkbox that says "Do not share my e-mail address with your marketing partners".

2. They did realize it, but then several months down the road when you buy the op-in list from a company, forgot they did it so can claim they didn't opt in.

IMO, if you didn't get the e-mail address from someone specifically entering it on your OWN website to sign up, then don't mail them! Heck, we have had people 3 months down the road complain because we are spamming them even though they signed up. Yeah, we had proof they did, but the time it takes to prove it to our ISP they complained to is annoying.

Keep spam where it belongs... in a can until ready to eat.

-Greg

Reece S — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:25:56 +0000

Update on Opt-Ins>>>

If you want a very good quality service for opt in and out campaign management, then I strongly recommend http://campaignmonitor.com/
You dont pay a penny until you decide to send an email, and the list management are amazing. All very secure, and under admin control. nicely layed out template and tables.
The only reason I dont use it is because I send all my members details to a database I made myself. then drag them back out with Excel.

You want a bit of advice though, Use Campaign Monitor as you wont have to mess around with legal issues, you just stick to their rules, and you are totally protected under their laws.

phoebe — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:13:59 +0000

as far as i know some email provider trigger this mass sending mails... and redirect it to spam mails...

JeevesBond — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 05:56:29 +0000

I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, etc.

That text seems to be saying:

Quote: If you take e-mail addresses from Web sites, where that Web site has a written message telling you not to, then expect a bigger punishment under this law.

Or, in Mr T speak:

Mr T. in 'T Vs. Spammers wrote: I pity the foo' that harvests e-mail addresses!

That clause doesn't appear to affect what you're doing, since people are opting-in to your list. Just make sure you've got an opt-out link. The CiviCRM module for Drupal has a really good mailer functionality, have a look at the demo to see what you should include in your e-mails.

247SiteAlert — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:23:32 +0000

If you're going to be doing any email marketing for any company, make sure your email addresses are "Opt-In" which means that everyone has given their prior permission to be on that mailing list. Otherwise you will be spamming.

Usually opt-in mailing lists are created from people signing up on a website to join a mailing list.