Posted by Fred on March 22, 2000 at 17:51:22:
In Reply to: Re: Home Again... posted by Linnette on March 22, 2000 at 00:55:34:
I sent the message to around 360 addresses. Got about 80-100 bounces, a couple of spam complaints (I don't consider it as spam but everyone has their own opinion), and several replies from people expressing their regret at not being able to make it. Even came up with one person who was still using the old forum address.
I did get a note from 'Tim in Macon' (Georgia) and will probably be meeting up with him at T.W.O. the week leading up to the rally.
As far as sending the emails, it was not that big a job:
- wrote a Perl script to automatically read all the forum posts individually and save them to a disk file.
- Opened the file in BBEdit to strip out everything except the mailto addresses.
- Transferred this data to Filemaker Pro and culled all the duplicates and obvious bad addresses.
- Then Perl again to send the mass email.
About two hours all told.