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"A. Harry Williams" <[log in to unmask]>
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:15:24 EST
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 08:19:32 -0500 Stan Horwitz said:
>On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Tim Parker wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to do the following....my company does a lot of one time
>> mailings to our customers, I am creating special lists with just certain
>> people and have to keep running a QUIET DELETE for a list of people that
>> have asked for no mail from us (opt-outs).
>
>This sounds more like a database question than anything else. Set up an
>SQL database of your clients with a flag for each client's record to
>indicate their opt-in or opt-out preference. Once a night, you could run a
>simple script to build the lists from scratch to quietly subscribe each
>opt in client to the appropriate list.

Actually, if you set it up as a DBMS system , you should be able to
create a VIEW that does all this work for you.

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