[150337] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Customer Notification System.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Feb 21 23:26:52 2012
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:26:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <01245B4ABF809743A84B2F16C6598FEADD38D9@hydrogen>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Wininger" <jwininger@ifncom.net>
> We are a smaller ISP in Indiana. We are growing quite rapidly (yeah for
> us). We have a need for a customer notification system. We have simply
> out grown the ability to send emails to our customers manually. We need
> to have a better way of notifying our customers of maintenance etc.
>
> We would need to send notifications out to say about 400 customers.
> Ideally the system would send an attached PDF. It would be great if
> this system were SQL based etc.
I will reply much more strongly than the other poster did:
*USE ASCII*.
If you sent me a scheduled maintenance window notice as a PDF attached to
an empty email, I'd drop you for a competitor.
But then, I'm a $CUSSWORD about such things.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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