16 November 2003

New Project: "Paperboy"

So, I've got like 50+ people subscribed to my nGallery newsletter. But, I don't really have a great mechanism to actually communicate with these subscribers. So, I started doing some research...

I found one service called “Constant Contact” by Roving.com:

http://www.roving.com/products/

It's really pretty interesting. You create groups of e-mail addresses, and then create “campaigns”, specificing which groups to contact, through what dates, what e-mail template to use, what content to send, and then you schedule a time for it to be delivered.

I'm aiming to do something very similar (calling it “Paperboy“ at the moment), but include the ability to add/remove easily, for easy integration into other sites and easy opt-out from a link within the newsletter.

Would this be a product you guys would be interested in?

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# Brad Jones said:

Absolutely!!

Sunday, November 16, 2003 9:07 AM
# Scott Galloway said:

I've just actually written a 'similar' tool for an internal project at my company; works as a service which accepts an XML string and mail-merges and sends these out...can be scheduled for later sending etc... I used a great component, ASPNetEmail for this, it has excellent mail-merge capabilities and made my task a whole lot easier... Have fun, also for the scheduling stuff, check out a project on Codeproject (http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/tsnewlib.asp), this gives you access to all the properties exposed by the COM tack scheduler component in a lovely managed fashion...

Sunday, November 16, 2003 2:26 PM
# Darth APO (aka M@) said:

Sweet!

Like the Frog from Sugar Smacks, I'd have to say: "Dig 'um!"

Friday, November 21, 2003 10:26 PM

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