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From: johnny (johnny_at_nothere.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:29:04 -0600

That makes me feel better. Do you know if bCentral's List Builder would
cause any problems?
"chris leeds" <chris@nedp.net> wrote in message
news:%23rBOCvU$DHA.3500@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> and it'd depend on how the email was "phoning home".
>
> "johnny" <johnny@nothere.com> wrote in message
> news:u2kEPmU$DHA.3120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > I really don't know what you mean here. You said, "Links in an email
> > that attempt to "Phone Home" when clicked are going to have firewall
> alerts
> > popping up like crazy."
> >
> > Our company is thinking of using bCentral's List Builder to send out a
> > newsletter. We are not spammers. We (I) liked it because it is an opt-in
> and
> > very easy opt-out mailer. It also (I think) gives us the ability to see,
> via
> > a report back to us, who received the newsletter and who also actually
> > clicked on any link. We don't want to cause any trouble for our
customers.
> > Will it, or any newsletter that does reporting of any kind, cause
firewall
> > alerts to go off? By just happening to see your reply you may have saved
> me
> > a lot of grief!
> >
> > "Steve Easton" <admin@95isalive.com> wrote in message
> > news:e7qI4AU$DHA.268@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > To send it you will need a third party application.
> > > One you might try is Listmaster pro from AnalogX
> > > http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/lmpro.htm
> > >
> > > As for the second part about tracking links, <imho> that is the
fastest
> > way
> > > I can think of to put yourself right out of business. Links in an
email
> > > that attempt to "Phone Home" when clicked are going to have firewall
> > alerts
> > > popping up like crazy.
> > > </imho>
> > >
> > > --
> > > Steve Easton
> > > Microsoft MVP FrontPage
> > > 95isalive
> > > This site is best viewed..................
> > > ..............................with a computer
> > >
> > > "Mr B" <ladeeda@hahaha.com> wrote in message
> > > news:htsr30tfmuk4jrdjmkv3lkse2t1665aevd@4ax.com...
> > > > Howdy,
> > > >
> > > > We are working on setting up an HTML based newsletter for the
members
> of
> > > our association. I may use
> > > > FP to design the look of the email since that's what we use to do
the
> > > website.
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way to link up FP with some way of sending the email
out
> to
> > > the information in our
> > > > database? And if so, is there any way of having it embed anything
so
> we
> > > can tell when someone opens
> > > > the email and when they click on various links and such?
> > > >
> > > > Or if anyone knows of any other pgoram to use that can do this,
that'd
> > be
> > > great.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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