Terry asks:

> How do other companies, handle marketing type mailings?  Is it "normal"
>  (what a loaded word;-) to use
>  a third-party to send them?  Or do most people send these large mailings
>  from their main email server?

<plug>

My response won't be precisely an answer to your question, but you may find
it interesting nonetheless. We manufacture an emailer, CUSoon, with elaborate
merge capabilities, designed for wholly in-house use in a completely hands-off,
automatic manner. The internal engine for CUSoon was taken from our report
writer, QueryCalc.

CUSoon was designed to greatly increase an organization's customer relations
at a very low cost. It was meant to basically convert a standard commercial
organization into a second Amazon.com, where the customer is kept up to date
regarding the status of every order.

Although CUSoon runs on a PC, it derives its information from a host and
works as well against MPE as it does UNIX, Linux or Windows-based databases.

For more information, please see:

     http://aics-research.com/cusoon/index.html

Let me also recommend a White Paper on the subject, if you don't mind:

     http://aics-research.com/cusoon/maximizecusoon.pdf

</plug>

Wirt Atmar

* To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, *
* etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *