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[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010, John Esak wrote:
>I would have agred with you about Resdidential vs Business accounts, but my
>cousin John Claude used to get continual grief and blockages on his business
>acount for 100 message sends.  I never had any touble with my out in the
>sticks Pennsylvania rural account. This data is from 3 years agao though.
>Things have I'm sure changed a lot.

As we send a fair quantity of e-mail from our servers, mostly to
hosted mailing lists, we have registered with AOL and others that
offer feedback systems where they know who to notify if their
users don't like what they're receiving.  Each of these feedback
systems has requirements as to how we handle complaints (AOL's
says we delete the address without contacting the owner of the
address).

This, of course, requires being able to identify the recipient of
the message so each message has to go out with identifying
information identifying the recipient.  The Mailman mailing list
manager handles this automatically with its VERP settings, but it
can still be a bit difficult to identify things as they attempt
to redact the AOL addresses, and even the list name from the
complaint -- useful that.

Having our own T1 and /24 net block helps as we don't have to
deal with consumer level ISPs, only DNSRBLs that might list our
servers or net blocks.

As I said in my first message in this thread, sending bulk e-mail
is easy technically.  Doing it without getting black listed
requires knowledge and care.

Bill
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