[Hidden-tech] free newsletter template

[ussailis at shaysnet.com]

CC took my business to be a cell phone manufacturer, or repackager. I would
get typically 30+ emails / day about component and parts sales.

But, for anyone who has been in manufacturing knows, an offer of 50 or so
wall power cubes is less than worthless. If I did make cell phones, think
of the cost to change packaging to accommodate such a small quantity, even
if they were free, and worked.

So I tried to stop the spam from CC. Not easy at all. Many phone calls,
emails, forms sent, etc. Finally I had to "agreed to" never having them
communicate with me again. YEA!!!

Did the emails stop then? No. But after a few more spam, I emailed them
every time after I received a spam. Finally they went away. Possibly I wore
them out.

Constant Contact is a spammer of the first order!!


Jim Ussailis
National Wireless, Inc.


Original Message:
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From: Chris Hoogendyk hoogendyk at bio.umass.edu
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:43:41 -0400
To: jessica at inperfectorder.com, hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] free newsletter template


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On 3/28/11 11:23 AM, Jessica Waters, In Perfect Order Organizing Solutions
wrote:
>
> Greetings, all! I have a client that is currently using ConstantContact
for his newsletter 
> mailings. We have had a lot of trouble with about 40% (!!!) of his
contacts bouncing back for no 
> reason, as they are fully opted in. When he uses the same exact list and
email from his aol 
> account, they all seem to go through and he gets a high response rate to
the mailing.
>
> Long story short, we would like to divest from CC completely and just go
with a free newsletter 
> template that he can send out as a .pdf from his aol account. Does anyone
have any suggestions as 
> to where to find the best one page template?
>

Just as a side comment . . .

In spite of the intent of CC and their sponsorship on NPR, etc., on many of
the open source spam 
fighting lists that I belong to CC is regarded as offensive. The very idea
of CC is found to be 
offensive as well as the action implied by the name. There is a
representative of CC who frequents 
some of those lists and tries to argue their side, but they get drowned out
or shouted down.

The point is that CC is well known among spam fighters, and in spite of
efforts on CC's part to do 
things right with regard to mail protocols and reputation, they are
regarded as spammers and thus 
put on black lists and blocked in other ways. This gets rolled into default
settings so that 
sysadmins who install spam fighting software often end up blocking CC
mailings. Many do it 
intentionally.

I'm presuming, of course, that CC does handle their mail protocols
correctly.


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