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- Holosiren, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Can anyone say "advertisement"?
Bury. Please. Don't be naive. - webtech, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Not advertisement. I guess if it ain't google or apple stories, it's not belong on digg.
Open you minds to new services, god! - guynameddave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2hmm. wow, i'm surprised at the responses. as one of the guys who created letterpop.com, i appreciate the comments - negative and positive. but come on, did anyone look past the homepage? the apple "pages-like" template is not all that is out there.
@LR2 - we're working on html ability - i.e. not a link to the newsletter but the newsletter in the email (plus a link). i've used constantcontact and microsoft's listbuilder for various times and reasons. both are okay. but i hope after using them you come to appreciate letterpop.com a bit more. :-) - tipdog32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3holy crap! so blatant. i just used pages to make a newsletter and i used this exact template. the Internet is a wonderful and terrible place for stealing things
- mikealao, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Many of this sites users are best ignored. If they want to "guard" this site zealously, then let them. What a bunch of freaks.
- HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Also, you risk a significant backlash and negative publicity by posting (or prompting other diggers to post) advertisements such as this one here. Digg is not an advertisement site, and many of its users guard the site zealously against attempts to use it as such. The mere fact that your ad has made the front page will spark accusations that you have "gamed the system" or undertaken various other unethical practices. Expect stronger responses to repeated submissions from your domain or from other locations reviewing/advertising your services.
This is just a friendly warning. - LR2_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hmm, speaking of newsletters, can anyone recommend a good email newsletter solution? I have hosting and I want to send html emails, CVS importing is a plus.
- abarba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think its great that people are getting their projects exposed for the world to judge.
- HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Methinks you need to work on your privacy policy more:
81 miles collects personal information when you register with LetterPop!, when you use the tools at LetterPop! and when you visit LetterPop.com. (of course, but WHOSE personal information. Just the user's? Or everyone who'll receive a newsletter from that user as well?)
...we reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to those products and services, such as service announcements, and administrative messages, that are considered part of your LetterPop! account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them. (service announcements and administrative messages...so, non-optional spam...just for your products only)
We transfer information about you if 81 Miles is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, 81 Miles will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
You can *disable* (what about delete?) your applicable account by visiting the applicable account deletion page; however, please note that some personal information, may remain in our records to the extent necessary to ensure consistency within our system and protect our legal interests or document compliance with regulatory requirements.
And the big missing thing: What do you do with the email addresses of newsletter recipients who are NOT your direct users, and did NOT authorize you to even possess that address? Just for the record, I'm not buying the line about personal information being retained "to the extent necessary." We both know thats just an extraneous clause so you don't have to delete personal information, ever. It's practices like this that make trying new services such as your so NOT worthwhile. The bare minimum you could do for someone whose never heard of you or your company is promise them that if they're not satisfied they'll be able to completely wash their hands from the experience. That's not true when you keep them on file and/or continue to use their personal information.
Finally, what can I do if a friend of mine submits my email address so he can send me his newsletter, and I want it removed from your database? (not because the newsletter was spam, but because I don't want you to have it) Will that request be honoured? - 18000rpm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hi Dave,
Nice designs and very easy to use. But it seems to me that the whole point of using LetterPop is to send beautifully formatted newsletter directly in the email. The fact that it arrives as an ugly email with a text link makes it entirely pointless. - Louis11, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Agreed, blatant advertisement. A simple solution can be created using PHP... no need for a front page "story" on the matter.
- danielkroon, on 11/11/2008, -0/+0Another tool that is not open source is Amisend.
http://www.amisend.com - TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2This looks great so far. Blatant rip-off of Apple's "Pages," but it's free! Digg.
- Louis11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Open your mind to correct ***** tenses.
- yafd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm John Watson from LetterPop. We're not out to get you and I hate spam more than you do. :-) We'll have opt-out controls for anyone who receives a newsletter in place on Tuesday. That was an oversight on our part. If you want any of your account information deleted from the system, permanently, just send us an email and it will be done.
- guynameddave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm Dave Bruno from LetterPop. Yeah, HonoredMule you've got it totally wrong. Don't know webtech at all. And unlike my good buddy and biz partner John, I do expect some people to believe me! :-) Do some homework before accusing and throwing out warnings.
As for the lot of you who have dropped by LetterPop and signed up, let us know how it works. We'll make it better based on your suggestions. Thanks for checking it out! And have an awesome New Year's celebration (assuming you have not already rung in the New Year). - yafd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm John Watson from LetterPop. I realize that, that's why we did not and will not post Digg stories about ourselves. This was posted by webtech who I've never met or spoken to before. I don't even know how he found out about us. I don't expect anyone to believe me, of course, but there's nothing I can do about that. The only reason I'm responding is because it's frustrating being accused. Besides, 160 diggs? Come on. If I were going to "game" anything, I'd hope I could do better than that. ;-)
- guynameddave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+01800rpm
We are working on the ability to HTML newsletters directly in emails, though that is not the whole point of LetterPop. Think of eCards, almost all the eCard services send links. But LetterPop is meant for more than even that. We'll be adding social features to the site that allow for user interaction at LetterPop. All to say, we are just as interested as getting people connecting through newsletters (and announcements and photo albums, etc.) at LetterPop as we are in creating yet another HTML newsletter service.
Thanks for the feedback! Let us know how you think things improve (or not) over time. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Pics or it aint true
- webtech, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3more information at this post:
http://go2web2.blogspot.com/2006/12/get-creative-with-letterpop.html - koregaonpark, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2I wish they'd unban your site, Orli.
- hackmiester, on 10/12/2007, -9/+5FP with 39 diggs... *sigh*
- TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Oh God...how awful. How on Earth can we go on living if things are making it to the front page with only 39 Diggs?!
Get over it.
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