I fully agree - we run lists for clients, to the tune of over 100,000 emails per day on our own servers and it is a constant project to handle bounce processing and clearing spam blocks put in place by various ill-managed networks, like comcast. And our lists are all double qualified emails of paid subscribers. And if you are even thinking of using cloud based servers, which we also use heavily, that adds a whole kettle of worms since most cloud networks are considered dynamic IPs by many email RBLs. Even lists like the HT and a few others we do for local groups take constant watching. In short, use a provider for a list of that size. If anyone wants to talk to me about what we do, please email off-list Rich On 1/6/2010 10:03 AM, Jeff Rutherford wrote: > Even with an 8,000 name list, why is she considering keeping it in-house? In my opinion, she's going to spend more time, hassle, and frustration dealing with the technical issues involved in email deliverability (DKIM, authentication, making sure she's not sending to spam traps, domain reputation, etc.) vs. working with a reputable email service provider - Mailchimp, Bronto, Blue Sky Factory, etc. And, if she doesn't stay on top of her deliverability stats constantly, if her deliverability goes down the ISPs will note that and start blocking her email further. > > Personally, I wouldn't consider using my own servers and dealing with > the minutia of deliverability unless I had a list that grew to 100,000+. > > Jeff > > Jeff Rutherford > jeff at jeffrutherford.com <mailto:jeff at jeffrutherford.com> > 413 475-0087 - phone > > > On Jan 6, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Lisa Sieverts wrote: > >> >> I should that she's been doing email marketing for a while, her real >> trouble is in the conversion of this 8000 name list to a better >> database and picking the right program to use. Dan Green sounds >> great, but it also sounds like he's a "hosted" solution for email >> marketing, is that right? She definitely wants to keep the work in >> house and just needs help with the technical side. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Lisa >> -- Rich Roth CEO On-the-net Bringing you complex online systems since the net was young http://www.tnrglobal.com - Blog: http://www.rizbang.com Helping move the world: http://www.earththrives.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20100106/e8a8d4a9/attachment.html