Lyris email program: Was Re: [CLUE-Tech] Email program mailing list question

[Kevin Cullis]

Mark,

Not at the moment I just wanted to see if anyone knew about it since I
hadn't, but if I do have some more questions I'll be sure to contact
you. Thanks for your help so far.

Kevin

Mark Cuny wrote:
> 
> Re: Lyris software
> 
> I've worked with it extensively while working for TWA airlines.  We
> did mass emailings (opt-in list) once a week to approximately 300,000
> people.
> 
> We had access to an OC-3 pipe and had a pretty hefty machine (dual
> pentium III 600 MHz and 1 Gig of RAM running Red Hat Linux 6.2).
> 
> Advantages
> 1. 300,000 emails in approximately 5 hours.
> 2. Nice Web interface using a specialized version of Apache.
> 3. Good logging.
> 4. Nice ability to remove bad email addresses.
> 5. Can import lists of email addresses for an automated list update
> system.
> 6. Many user configurable options to allow different types of uses.
> 7. Easy to set up.
> 
> Disadvantages
> 1. Expensive.  If I remember correctly, it was abou $10,000.00 for up
> to approximatey 500,000 people.
> 2. Needs weekly maintenance to maintain its propriatery database.
> Basically, you take down the service and pack the database once a
> week.
> 
> Any other questions, feel free to email me.
> 
> - Mark Cuny
> 
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know about this?  Is there anything better? First time I've heard
> > of this one.
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> > http://www.lyris.com/
> 
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