Unsubscribe option when emailing

[AussieDomainer]

Hi

I contact quite a few businesses by email trying to sell domains relevant to them. I am sure to add my full name and physical address to comply with CAN SPAM laws. However the one thing that I can't do at the moment is honour removal requests which is a real pain and leaves me open to trouble.

Since I am using Outlook Express and just emailing people from the email address found on their website I do not know of a way to make a "do not email" list in Outlook Express so that if people want removed I can add them to this and they will not be emailed in future.

I don't want to use a program like Constant Contact as this is more for newsletters and repeated emails while I am normally only emailing once. However there is a chance that the same person who requests removal may be emailed in the future if I ever have another domain relevant to them.

Does anyone know of an email program I can use (or an option within Outlook Express) that I can add a blacklist of people I can't email to?

Any help is greatly appreciated and will be surely rewarded with rep and NP$

Thanks

 

[proson]

Well, if they don't optin for you, I think you may be opened for spam accuse anyway.

So if you think there are someone who is interested offer, may be you can post in the advertising section in this forum also open up auction on various domain sites for contact.

This is not point to contact your potentials buyers unless you know or meet them personally.

 

[AussieDomainer]

Well, if they don't optin for you, I think you may be opened for spam accuse anyway.

So if you think there are someone who is interested offer, may be you can post in the advertising section in this forum also open up auction on various domain sites for contact.

This is not point to contact your potentials buyers unless you know or meet them personally.

Thanks for your input but that is actually incorrect. It is fine to contact people as long as you have a legitimately relevant thing to offer them, provide your details and give them a way to opt out of future communications if they wish. Direct email contact to end users is something I've been doing for years and have not had a problem with.

 

[vanmed]

A well managed contact list could help a great deal. If you add a disclaimer to your emails requesting a response to the email if the contact wishes to be removed from your list, then you can remove the contact or flag it in your database so that you do not continue to email that contact. Its a little more time consuming than an automated system, but could definitely save some trouble.

 

[AussieDomainer]

A well managed contact list could help a great deal. If you add a disclaimer to your emails requesting a response to the email if the contact wishes to be removed from your list, then you can remove the contact or flag it in your database so that you do not continue to email that contact. Its a little more time consuming than an automated system, but could definitely save some trouble.

Thanks for your input. However this is not the problem. I have no problem getting people to respond if they don't wish to be emailed. The problem is being able to not email them in future. Since I email through Outlook Express there is no way to remove emails so that they can't be emailed in future. The only current way is from memory which is obviously unreliable when dealing with thousands of emails over long periods of time.

 

[RLW]

I think it really depends on the volume of emails that you send.

I don't know any programs or options that you could use to maintain a list, but if you only send a few emails each day, then it could be as simple as keeping an excel spreadsheet or text file containing the email addresses of 'unsubscribed' people. You could do a quick search of the list before you send an email.

An alternative solution would be to code simple web page that you use to:

1. Record unsubscribed email addresses
2. Send your emails

You could record the email addresses in a database table. Then you could code your 'email sending' page to check the 'unsubscribed' email address table in the database before it sends the email. If the email address exists in the table, the email won't be sent. If the email address doesn't exist then you would let the email be sent.