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Originally Posted by edgeprod
In this thread: information beyond the scope of most people's understanding being ignored by people too inept to make use of it anyway.
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Hi Dom, going by bare's response to this post I can only imagine that it's aimed at me. No harm, no foul; you're wholly entitled to your opinion of what you feel I know and don't know.
"information beyond the scope of most people's understanding" - I totally agree which is why I feel an in-house solution isn't for everyone. It would be like letting a kid loose in a NASCAR competition the first day he passed his driving test.
Mailing does require a LOT of know-how like you've pointed out. To do this in-house one could: teach themselves (would take forever), they could hire someone, or they could just wing it and see what happens. Another option is to out source it to services like SMTP, etc. My sole intention in this thread was to make people aware that there just isn't one way to tackle this.
Why would I learn to design when I could outsource to any number of designers? Why learn to code when I can outsource to any number of coders. Why learn to rear chickens when I can buy then at a supermarket?
People shouldn't feel restricted or think that something isn't possible just because they don't have the skills to achieve it. At the end of the day they need to weigh up what it would cost, see what the pros and cons are and make a decision on what works for them in terms of using a service or doing something in-house.
It doesn't bother me one iota that someone on the internet thinks I'm wrong (I'm not talking about you) because I'll continue to do what works for me. I just find it absurd that people would tout "in-house" as being the only way to go simply because they apparently have a massive list(s). Most people DON'T have massive lists and even if they did, a service may yet be what is right for them simply because it would cost more to gain the expertise to do it in-house.