RE: [epub] Experience with members (ultra-multi subscribing)

["Thomas J. Brady" <thomasbrady@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

i am really new to ezines. actually i never made one.  how does one ask
subcribers to refer friends and what software or what way to the friends
sign up?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Merz [mailto:Mike@apfwmngroup.bizland.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 3:20 PM
> To: epub@egroups.com
> Subject: Re: [epub] Experience with members (ultra-multi subscribing)
>
>
> Thanks for your input, Irene, Ray.
> Here is the response that I got from a TotalSaturation.com
> representative, when I asked if their members received any of my
> responses (or my group members...).
>
> "Hello Mike,
>
> You are right...we do automatically filter incoming mail.
>
> Total Saturation customers can receive all responses simply by
> requesting
> them.
>
> Thank You,
>                     Sara
>
> Research & Development
> Customer Support Team!"
>
> So they join your group (in a previous response from Sara, she told me
> that I should be "happy with the increase in my subscriber base", as if
> they did anything but that. They leave no identity, and receive no
> posts, only make them.
>
> She also forgets to mention that T.S. members can receive all of their
> posts (they're kept on file at T.S.) *but*, they will receive so much
> e-mail that their ISP /mail server will shut down their account
> for bounced messages, so they "don't recommend it" (Ha !)
>
> I'm sorry to dwell on this, but It's hard to believe there isn't a
> better way to spend $39.95 (the T.S. membership cost).
>
> I promise to make this my last post on the subject (but I'd like to hear
> the responses...)
> Mike Merz Top5/APFWM/N Group
> The *How To* Of Affiliate Program Marketing
> http://apfwmngroup.bizland.com
> *Top 5* : The Affiliate Program Source
> http://top5affiliateprogram.bizland.com
>
> Irene Zaugg wrote:
>
> > I just have to say, I went to TotalSaturation.com, myself, and every
> > sense of integrity and honest, straight-forward e-business decided to
> > take a holiday for a bit.  And I had always wondered why the heck
> > everytime I signed up for *anything,* I was almost instantly bombarded
> >
> > with advertisements from people I don't know about things I don't
> > care about.  The good thing is, at least TotalSaturation can't get
> > into moderated newsgroups (if you look at their form for having
> > people sign up, it becomes pretty obvious why not: they need to
> > be able to subscribe all of their users to it instantly, so
> > reply messages and several forms of approval aren't possible).
> > In short, if you have an unmoderated newsgroup, they have the ability
> > to subscribe all of their advertisers to it, not to mention people
> > like the ones you were describing.  I'm guessing you'd start
> > getting advertisements popping up on your egroup as soon as you
> > got one of these people inside it.
> >
> > In any case, I just came off the web site, and I'm feeling a
> > little...teeny bit...wanna KILL some webmasters right now, so
> > this is my rant ;-P
> >
> > Irene Zaugg
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>


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