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

["Shannon D. Denniston" <Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"John Sweet" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

John, YES this is opt-in. When someone submits the form on a CG
member's web site, they ae "opting-in" for additional information.

> 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!"

Re-read what you just posted above...
"Our Net-O-Matic system will automatically start notifying you each time
a new associate is placed below you." -This means that the person will
be contact via e-mail.

> 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.

The "purpose" phrase above means that we will not sell their contact info
to a 3rd party. All info they receive will be related to the Concorde Group
business.

> 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.

You can only say so much on one page. If someone is interested in learning
more about the business opportunity, they will submit the form. If they are
not, they won't.

> 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?)  

The number of new pre-enrollees has grown from a few hundred to over 500,000
since January. For the month of April, the number of new pre-enrollees doubled.
This is what I meant to say, sorry.

The system needs to be *capable* of sending 1,000,000+ e-mails per day. We
will be doing weekly e-mail update broadcasts to all pre-enrollees. At present, this
we need to be able to contact the 500,000+ pre-enrollees. When I say 1 million, I
am taking into consideration the growth curve of the company. There WILL be over
1,000,000 people in the company this year.

> 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 don't plan on running this project solely off of a RAQ server appliance. The RAQ
is simply the server that the project is currently hosted on. When I first started
this thread several days ago, I was only looking for feedback as to what one could
"realistically" expect in regards to sendmail on a RAQ.

I have already made plans to purchase a separate server just for this project. It will
most likely be a dual PIII with 1GB RAM and SCSI drives.

> I'd also avoid pointing people at your MLM site - it only underlines the
> fact that you are a spammer.

Are you accusing everyone in Network Marketing of being spammers? This is what
it sounds like to me. Network Marketing is a VERY reputable industry. More and
more people are turning to this form of business ownership because of the ease
of starting up a *profitable* in-home business. From your wording above, it sounds
like you are stuck in the days of Amway or something. (not that Amway is a bad
opportunity though)

-Shannon