Originally Posted by Ninja
What wrong with having email addresses that are 10 years old ??
Mine still works after 15+ years and you have admitted yours has been the same for 12 years. It is obvious that your only experience is with kids who tend to change emails on a regular basis. Most adults who have spent much time on the net see no reason to regularly change their email address.
How many less potential customers do YOU have since you wiped your Chess Kids list and started again ??. Proper maintaining of a email list should automatically remove emails after multiple bounces but there is absolutely no reason to remove people just because you have not heard from them. I am sure there are plenty of people on the CV list who have not played OTB for a while and continuing that contact may be what brings them back.
You comment re overcoming blocking of emails means one of two things.
1) You have no idea what you are doing? (I vote for this one)
or
2) You are a GOD who can overcome Corporate firewalls and company IT policy with a wave of your hand and we all should vote for you to be president and sit back and watch the glory
mailman is free software that does a fine job of managing mailing lists and does suspend/delete addresses following unresolvable bounces. It's used by some quite big businesses including Red Hat.
It's written in Python, runs on your favourite Linux distro and unix incarnation.
Users can manage their own subscriptions, once established a list can be a completely hands-free operation, aside from user queries. Management of individual lists can be delegated, so MCC could have its own list, managed by Grant (or someone else).
01-03-2010, 11:46 AM
