[ale] mass email for school and school web site

[Jim Kinney]

for i in $(cat parentemaillist); do
  mail.....
  sleep .2s
done

Easiest is to set up a mailing list application and subscribe parents
to it. ISP's see the mailing list headers and don't generally block
it. Mailman is what we use for ale. It works very well for our needs
(for now).

On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 8:19 AM, <dhhoward at comcast.net> wrote:
> My daughter's school wants to send 700+ (up to 1000) email blasts to parents
> (school newsletter, etc.), and we may be looking at a new web site (and
> could integrate the email blasts into the web site, or just blast summaries
> and put the whole thing on the web site, e.g.).  They've used Constant
> Contact, and another school uses Pommo.  Any suggestions?  I personally
> don't want to manage a server and would worry that Comcast might block it
> from my home, e.g.
>
> Also, if anyone has done school web site development and would like to do
> some consulting with us, let me know off line.  Thanks to the work of my
> colleague William Fragakis, my gold standard is the Morris Brandon web site.
>
> Best, Daniel
>
>
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