At 1:43 PM -0500 2005-03-31, ICHRONSTUDIO@aol.com wrote:
I now know how to set it up as announce only. I even know how to put my database on with out sending out a thank you for subscribing mail. How do I stop the continuing replies?
Well, that depends on how they're doing the continuing replies.
If all those people are doing "Reply-All", then most of them are being sent directly from each person to each other person who was named in the previous message to which someone did a "Reply-All", and since none of that passes through your machines, there's not much you can do.
Anything passing through your machines should be passing through
your lists, and if you've got the list configurations set up correctly now, they should already be stopped.
Sorry to bother you about this, it was my own ignorance that put me here, but I was hoping that you might be able to suggest sometihng to get me out.
In my experience, one general rule is that when you add a bunch
of people to a list and you don't send out an announcement welcoming them to the list, and large numbers of people start immediately responding with "STOP SENDING ME E-MAIL" complaints, etc.... that means you're basically sending spam, and that makes you a spammer.
In the future, if you don't want to be lumped in with that class
of person, I would encourage you to do things differently so that your activities do not encourage those people to respond that way.
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