kudzurunner
83 posts
Aug 21, 2008
12:19 PM
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Hey guys:
As many of you know, I send out an email to Modern Blues Harmonica customers on an occasional basis--generally when I've just uploaded a new lesson or two. An average of perhaps one or two emails a month.
Rather than BCC the customer list at once, I generally subdivide it, 100 or so at a shot.
Today, for the first time, large #s of emails got shot back, blocked by MSN/Hotmail's spam filter, and several other spam filters.
(I use AOL email, BTW.)
I have a legitimate desire to keep in touch with my customers; I'm not spamming.
So it's time for me to take the next step and look beyond regular AOL email. Can somebody suggest that next step? I guess it would fall under the category of a "business solution." I don't consider myself much of a businessman, just a harp guy trying to provide a service.
Feel free to email me privately at asgussow@aol.com
If you've purchased from me before but didn't get one of my MBH emails today, your spam filter is to blame. Please take a look at "news and updates," where I've also posted info about the new lessons, with links.
Thanks.
--Adam
Last Edited by on Aug 21, 2008 12:19 PM
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mic
54 posts
Aug 21, 2008
12:50 PM
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I, for one, look forward to the e-mails. Keep em comming!
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RockinBob61
1 post
Aug 21, 2008
2:04 PM
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Adam,
It would help if you could forward the header info from one of the kicked back emails. If your domain, or someone else on your domain has been added to a spam block list that could be the problem.
Hopefully it can be worked out so we can all continue receiving emails from you!
-B²
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kudzurunner
84 posts
Aug 21, 2008
3:13 PM
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Well, after consulting with a friend of mine who has a blues-related business, I've decided to use a bulk email company called "Emma." Yes, as a blues guy, it hurt to sign up with a firm whose name sounds like a British nanny. They're a little more professional, frankly, than I am. I'd prefer to keep things homegrown, even semi-illegitimate. But AOL has made that impossible. So onward and upward......
--Adam
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oldwailer
150 posts
Aug 21, 2008
9:12 PM
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Yes, Adam, I think it is definitely AOL induced. . .I have all of my spam filters turned off with my ISP--and I didn't get an email from you today--and I would like to.
As the spouse of a webmaster--I know that AOL has caused a lot of problems for many people--they apparently try to protect us from ourselves--but, like the cow of Thoreau--they sometimes gore us in their zeal. . .
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Chris Michalek
Guest
Aug 23, 2008
6:37 AM
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It's most likely because you use AOL.
Can't you set up an email account associated with MBH.com? I think you will find better results.
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Andrew
39 posts
Dec 20, 2008
3:33 AM
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Kudzurunner writes:
"I've decided to use a bulk email company called "Emma." Yes, as a blues guy, it hurt to sign up with a firm whose name sounds like a British nanny."
Lol!
Get yourself some DVDs of the Avengers with Diana Rigg playing agent Emma Peel. That'll change your mind, Adam!
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Tryharp
50 posts
Dec 20, 2008
3:47 AM
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Adam,
I dont have a spam filter on this account and didint get an email today, it must have been nabbed by a filter at the ISP ? Hope emma comes through.
A blues guy getting involved with a british nanny sounds OK to me :-}, well done.
Jamie
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SilasJackson
8 posts
Dec 30, 2008
11:54 PM
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Radical Methodology--Once again.
AOL--Pills and the Sledge Hammer. (Tooey on them.)
Maybe some gas and a match too.
Everything good becomes too complicated for no apparently good reason, and for some un-Godly reason, the powers that be, (f'in us up) decide it's more fun for them to piss on OUR parade. Go figure. Keep up the great work, Adam. I know you are working hard on this, and I greatly appreciate you efforts. I am sure everyone else on this forum feels the same.
Thanks So Much,
SJ
Last Edited by on Dec 30, 2008 11:55 PM
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