TCH-Dick

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As long as your mailings are not being reported as SPAM, your doing something right. We have a LOT of members that send out newsletters and a lot of them get reported to us as SPAM. Theres two main things you have to do to make your mailing list legit. 1.) A person has to CHOOSE to receive your newsletter, if a person has to register on a site and by default they are automticlly signed up for your newsletter, thats no good. Even though they didnt uncheck the option to receive the mail, they still havent given permission. 2.) There has to be an easy way for a person to opt out if they decide they dont want to receive the e-mail anymore. This Opt out requirement is a double edged sword though, A real Spammer puts the opt out link in their e-mail, and when you click on it to be removed all you have done is verify that the e-mail address they sent it to was good and opened yourself up for a LOT more spam. There a program called MailWasher, that lets you view your mail without downloading it to your computer, then it gives you the option to receive or bounce the e-mail. If you bounce a spam e-mail the spammer sees its a bad e-mail address and takes that address off your list. Now, as to why I posted this, yes, we get a TON of spam complaints, most are valid e-mails or newsletters, but after so many complaints the sending server can get blacklisted as a spammer. Since most of our customers are on shared servers, if a server IP gets blacklisted every person on that server is blocked from sending mail through their domain.

Dont have any answers, but here what a "popularity search" says about that site www.covenantwordchurch.org Google 2, AllTheWeb 48, AltaVista 57, MSN 17, HotBot 26 and Lycos 12 links. Total links for www.covenantwordchurch.org are 164 http://www.positionstrategy.com/link-popularity.html

Mailing List Administrators In order to avoid spamming, mailing lists must implement a secure opt-in procedure. Many so-called "opt-in" lists are nothing of the sort. Beware anyone who wants to sell you lists. You will be disappointed. I cannot stress strongly enough the need for secure opt-in. Many web-sites now feature "click-through" confirmation, or checkboxes which must be unchecked. However the initial sign up is accomplished, whether on a web site, or by email - the final confirmation phase must include a random code which is emailed to the intended recipient. If that code is not returned by the user, you must not add the address to your list. If you do not follow this procedure, you will inevitably spam somebody, whether or not that is your intent. * If you implement this type of secure opt-in, and one of your subscribers has still reported your mailing as spam, please gather all the data on the incident and report it. * If you do not have a working opt-in process, you should clean your list by reconfirming all subscribers using a secure opt-in procedure as described above. The most important part of this confirmation is that if a subscriber takes no action, then that subscriber is de-listed. Sending bulk mail requires careful record-keeping and responsible management. If you do not have the technical ability or time to do this, you can outsource the process through a free service such as yahoo or listbot. You provide the content, they provide the list-management and distribution.

that avatar looks sorta familiar

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Jim always forgets me On AIM tchgurumike, or by PM here on the boards. As for AIM, if I am awake I am usually on, if you send a message and i dont respond give me a few minutes i may be away from the computer.

got it, all I can do now is wait on road Runner

hi, forward me the entire message you recieved including headers to mike@totalchoicehosting.com so I can look into it.

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all you need to put is /usr/local/bin it wont work with convert added, at least it never did for me.

Thanks, looking foward to trying out some of those.

Still being worked on, this is a pretty huge project.

Any thing new? Updates?

The easiest way would be to make the page and name it something like index2.HTML then provide a link to it, that way your current page stays as is but ppl could go to the link for your test page and take a look at it.

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File Manager

Yes the file you want to replace is on your site. Just use File Manger at the bottom of the Cpanel to upload your image named logo_phpBB.gif into the folder public_html/forum/templates/subSilver/images.

You don't need any special software to convert it. Just do it the quick and dirty way. Open the image in Paint and then go to "File>SaveAs>chose .GIF for the extension.

The file you replaced it with has to be the same name as the one you are replacing logo_phpBB.gif

Replace this file forum/templates/subSilver/images/logo_phpBB.gif with your logo.

Thanks, they have been working non stop for years, this is their 3rd CD and they recently RE signed with universal records, the only downfall is now we dont see them much around here any more.

try phpbb.com if it is a phpbb, or ibplanet

I normally dont do stuff like this, but a friend of mines band just released their first video!! The band is called Blue October and you can see the video on their website http://blueoctober.com click on news and press to see the video. They are an awesome band and a great bunch of guys

Your in the right spot and the fee is only for their priority technical support. You don't have to pay that.