[cobalt-users] Re: How can I speed up Sendmail?

["John Sweet" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Shannon D. Denniston" Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
<snip>
>I have already received system approval by Communitech.net 
>corporate. The only concern that they had was that ALL 
>records being processed by the system are opt-in...which 
>100% are. To see how each record is opted-in prior to 
>entering theConcordeBuddy.com system, you can view the 
>opt-in form on my personal CG site at: 
>http://www.ConcordeLeader.com  (domain routes to the LONG url)
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<off topic>
Well I had a look at your "opt-in" form - as usual spammers have a very
different notion of what counts as an "opt-in".

The form presents itself as a quick reg to take a free tour - where is
any mention made of the fact that once you have regg'd for a free tour
you are now in fact a temporary "concord buddy" member and will receive
an email every time another fool joins the great concord powerline?

This is simply not opt-in.

 No mention of being added to a mailing list when harvesting the email
address. "This added bonus is completely explained during your FREE TOUR
so don't wait another minute- simply fill out the form below and start
your tour NOW!" Only AFTER you have scammed the email address is the
sucker told : "PS. Our Net-O-Matic system will automatically start
notifying you each time a new associate is placed below you, any one of
which could generate immediate GUARANTEED income for you!"

 No privacy statement (3rd party use) "No need to worry, we will not
sell or use your information for any other purposes" does not cut it
because you do not mention the "purpose" when your victim is giving up
their email address.

Of course if you did make it clear what the "free tour" details were
going to be used for, very few might give them up. Classic MLM tactics.
Get some details and then spam the hell out of them until you cream off
the small percentage of suckers in any group.

Even believing the laughable "doubling business every month" (pennies on
a chess board anyone?) the volume of email sending you are trying to
support is not required (1 million members - you gonna be emailing them
every minute about the state of their powerline?)  

<on topic>
The raq is sold as a "web hosting appliance" - its great at what it
does. It is not a sendmail engine, 512Mb ram and a little ADM-K6 simply
won't cut it. Lots of products out there are designed to churn mail out.
Go buy one. Sure they are not as cheap as a raq but so what - with all
the millions you make from MLM'ing nutrient drinks you can afford one.

I'd stay away form the sendmail groups though - lots of very bad
tempered old school sysadmins tend to hang out there, if you think our
list-cops are mean . . . .

I'd also avoid pointing people at your MLM site - it only underlines the
fact that you are a spammer and as your so called "opt-in" form has no
email address validation (other than the "form" of the email address) it
would only take 5 mins to write a script to poison the hell out of your
all important spam list.