RE: Re[2]: FN-FORUM: Email Marketing Contracts with Clients

date posted 28th January 2005 19:06

Thanks for that JB,

we have a Privacy Policy page, and a "Feedback" page. I'll add an
abuse@ address. Thanks for the tip and the link.

Dave.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of JBR
> Sent: 28 January 2005 13:50
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: FN-FORUM: Email Marketing Contracts with Clients
>
>
> afaik, there are different ways to get listed - you can get
> there after a number of complains are received (i.e. people
> complain about you consistently), or you can be listed
> because you sent an e-mail to a honeypot address (i.e. an
> e-mail address listed on a web page somewhere let there to be
> catched by spam crawlers), etc.
>
> basically, if you use an opt-in policy with validation (like,
> people have to ask on the web to be subscribed AND have to
> reply a confirmation e-mail) then you're quite safe and
> unlikely to be complained about.
>
> some people may forget they subscribed to your mailing lists
> and report you as a spammer though; to handle that you
> simply need to have an abuse report address
> [EMAIL REMOVED] say) and handle whatever comes there.
> when this occurs, it helps to have some documents that
> explain people what your policies are (privacy, subscription) too.
>
> http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/bulk/bulk-01.html has some
> guidelines on that regard.
>
> gd luck,
> jb
>
> On 27 Jan 2005 19:31:18 -0000, Dave Boulden
> [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> >
> > I wrote and host a site for a customer (www.pjcareers.com)
> that sends
> > out email alerts once a week to those who specifically opt-in
> > (currently around 2,500 out of 10,000 users). I have experienced
> > occasional problems with emails getting blocked due to
> blacklilsts on
> > that and other domains on the same hosting account (1&1)... Is it
> > likely the fact my site is sending out 2,500 emails a week
> the cause
> > for this, even though they are all specifically opt-in?
> >
> > Dave.
>