email marketting

[Anon]

i would like to know about the details of how emails work . how to customize emails ? how to target the customers ? how to make analysis of the areas of interest of the regular clients ? how to keep track of the sites to which the client regularly visits ?

i am currently doing a project on email marketting . so any information related to above topics will be welcomed . also information of related sites , web sites will be welcomed .

[Anon]

How about not posting this here?

[Anon]

right, the last thing we need hanging around are spammers and spammer wanna'be's. i am sure not going to help someone create the very thing i hate.

[Anon]

Yes, I hate it when every day linuxtoday.com sends me an email I asked them to send me. Just drives me crazy, those aweful spammers.

Here's a though, Vincent and Thomas, maybe you should point out how to send email ethically, i.e. when people ask for it, and sign up for it, and then making it possible for them to get off of it.

I've written an app to do just that, and there's nothing spammish about it. The users can subscribe to the areas they want to receive, unsubscribe from the stuff they don't want, and have their name placed into a "do no mail" list.

Instead of posting these short, terse, get the f*ck outta here posts, why not educate the poor guy. My guess is he doesn't wanna spam any more than us, just use direct emailing for visitors to his site who want to use it.

[Anon]

You're asking for a lot of data, some of which is pretty much not connected together.

For email, look up the RFCs that define MIME compliant attachments and how to create them, they come in real handy (i'll try to look them up and post them a little later)

As for analyzing usage, you can really on do that on sites you either host, or proxy.

It's important to design any bulk mailing application with the user in mind. How will you get their email addresses? Are you buying a large list from a company that just harvests email addresses from the internet? This may not be a good move, as most of those folks don't want to receive spam, and will view unsolicited email as such.

Is it a list from your company's own database of contact emails from people who expect to see email from you in their inbox?

Are these people gonna sign up on your site?

To analyze traffic on your own site, you can either use grep and write your own scripts to do it, or use something like webalizer, which will do a lot of analysis for you, but may not do just what you need.

[Anon]

i do apologize for the way i treated Monali,
my first message was based more off what i read in someone else's message. when i went back to read monali's message, i did not get the impression that he was out to spam, but that he wanted to know how to work with email in order to effectively target his customers. sorry, monali, thanks Scott for the pointer.