cassady

I know that heading will probably flag as a :cen: spam thing - so i will explain - our fire department sends out text messages over sms and email, but our provider doesn't allow more than 25 messages at once - this means that some of the messages on run information do not get sent, which is a very important thing for us.

do the servers here allow mutiple messages sent out? or possibly a 3rd party system that i can use? the way we have it now we set up is email one address and it sends out info - but we need a way to send to between 20 and 70 members at the same time depending on dive runs, medical info, or fire runs. does anyone have any ideas?

thanks

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It should pose no problems. As long as no one complains that your domain is spamming then you shouldn't have to worry about it.

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Cassady, pls disregard my private message. Patrickb answered it.

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Cassady,

Do you still need ideas for what program to use in order to get the results that you want? If so, feel free to PM me and I might able to help you out! patrickb can tell you about my vast experience with mailing lists! :P

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Unfortunately I can.. j/k

Did you ever get that mailing list software you were asking about way back when? If so, how do you like it?

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Yeah, I did get it! True, there is a feature or two that isn't there that I personally was expecting, but it is still MUCH better than what I was using before and it turned out to be a pretty good deal because I've seen systems with less features and stability than this and they go for about $100 more a pop! The only problem I really had was with a lot of bounced messages since I kept going over Mango's quota, but once the quota was set at a stable number, I was able to modify the program to only send that many an hour and then everything worked like a charm! (Things have been going even better on Fresh since I was smart this time and asked about the quota *before* I sent any messages, thus avoiding the problem.) My subscription rate has more than *doubled* since I starting using it, since I am able to offer HTML mail and more list options!

So far, an $85 well spent...

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