[clug-talk] Mailman opt-in lists

[Shawn]

I would create "the list".  Then send out a one-time email to each of 
the emails on your list with details of how to sign up for the list. 
This way you are getting the best of both worlds - a targeted message, 
and an opt-in list.

While this is probably a little more work, I think it'd be the most 
neutral way to handle this type of job.

80,000 emails is a lot though, so, I'd probably create a generic 
message, and then write a script to send an individual email to each of 
the addresses.  The script itself wouldn't be too hard, but would likely 
take a few hours to troubleshoot/perfect.  Still, much less time than 
sending those messages manually though....

My thoughts (for what they are worth at the moment - I'm a little tired 
and not focusing too well on topics.. :) ).

Shawn


Jesse Kline wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'm working for an organization that has a list of ~80,000 e-mail 
> addresses and we want to create a mailing list, but we have two problems:
> 
> 1) Our hosting provider will not allow us to send out that many e-mails. 
> I figure that a potential solution would be to use Mailman with the full 
> personalization feature so it sends each e-mail individually (correct me 
> if I'm wrong). However, that brings me to my second problem.
> 
> 2) Many of the e-mail addresses were given to us awhile ago and we don't 
> want our messages to be interpreted as spam. Is it possible to setup a 
> list so that users have to specifically opt-in rather than opt-out? If 
> so, how would I set this up?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Jesse
> 
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