[TriLUG] OT: Google advertising for spammers?

[Reginald Reed]

Disclaimer:  I don't know how any of these company's systems work internally.

My fraternity uses ConstantContact for communicating with our
membership.  What I know of that specific service, the company doesn't
dictate when email communications are sent out, it is completely up to
the subscriber.  In general, people probably want stuff to go out as
soon as it's ready - this is certainly the case with my fraternity, be
a notification of national magazine is available, key developments
with the organization, updates, etc.  Our membership *wants* that and
ConstantContact delivers.

So it *may* be unfair to look at these companies for their content
delivery schedules.  That said, as a person that has administered
email for non-profits with similar non-existent budgets, I feel for
your pain!

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Douglas Ward <dward at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> As an e-mail server admin who is not on these lists they are still a pain in
> my bandwidth.  iContact (and the other companies listed in this thread) host
> large mailing lists that basically include my entire user base.  A few
> messages from these guys and there could be as many as a few thousand
> messages in my queues in a few seconds.  I wish they would throttle their
> output to one domain.  I'm sure weekly (or daily) newsletters  or whatever
> they are sending isn't so critical that it has to be in someone's inbox
> immediately.  It would also be nice if they dumped their load (no pun
> intended) at night instead of right in the middle of our business hours.