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Subject: Re: VERPs versus batched delivery
From: Chuq Von Rospach <chuqui @ plaidworks . com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:38:05 -0800
To: "Roger Fajman" <RAF @ CU . NIH . GOV>, list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <200003132058.MAA03472@honor.greatcircle.com>
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At 4:05 PM -0500 3/13/2000, Roger Fajman wrote:
>  > What if the list software did VERPs on one out every hundred messages, or
>>  maybe on only one message a day? Would you then get the list-cleaning
>>  advantages without the costs of doing it on every message?
>
>That's the way that LISTSERV does it.  It works well.  The percentage of
>VERPs can be specified by the list owner.

This ignores some of the other advantages of VERPing -- for instance, 
you can start customizing messages to make things better for the 
users. For instance, putting the user's address back in the To: line, 
encoding unsubscribe info into your unsubscribe links, that sort of 
thing. it can REALLY cut the % of user problems and raise user 
satisfaction a lot. And really cut the admin hassles as well....

VERPing technology can buy you lots beyond simply making bounces 
easier, if you want.

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Chuq Von Rospach - Plaidworks Consulting (mailto:chuqui@plaidworks.com)
Apple Mail List Gnome (mailto:chuq@apple.com)

And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
and say 'Man, what are you doing here?'"


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