Author Topic: Referal Autoresponder (Read 7804 times)

davidmccready · « **on:** September 12, 2006, 03:00:14 am »

Dean

It would be nice to build my list by getting existing subscribers to add the names and email addresses of people who they think would appreciate the newsletters they are sent.

So person A could refer person B.
B would then get an email from me, mentioning that "Dear B, your friend A suggested you read this...... please click to confirm....etc."

But.
This could be abused and the resulting emails could be treated as spam.

There must be someway of doing this without a malicious person causing me to accidentally spam anyone.

David

DW · « **Reply #1 on:** September 13, 2006, 06:51:26 pm »

Hi David,

There is indeed a high potential for abuse with such a feature. Due to the nature of it I don't think it's possible to prevent malicious users from entering other people's email addresses. Then again, they can -already- do similar damage simply by 'subscribing' anyone they wish, so it might not be that much worse...

This has been suggested before and is in consideration for future versions but I'll move your post over to the suggestions forum so it gets a little more exposure and attention anyhow.

Regards

peter · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2006, 08:05:38 pm »

I built a front-end myself to do just this.

I have a sales page where I offer a free course in a flyover as a 'name grab'

When they get to the name grab I get them to "tell a friend" and my script does the TAF, then sends the data onto the ListMail system.

There is quite a bit of lockdown on the script to prevent abuse. it is a legal requirement by the way to say it comes from the person who sent it.

I have it restricted so the emails can not be sent "from" one of my domains.

currently I have about 50% of signups telling 3 people about the system.

You can see it at http://intratrakker.com

Cheers,
Mathew

billmeds · « **Reply #3 on:** July 13, 2007, 04:08:26 am »

Mathew,

Your page at intratrakker is almost exactly what I want to achieve. I wonder if you'd be willing to share your code from http://intratrakker.com/tell-a-friend.php ?

Thanks

BGSWebDesign · « **Reply #4 on:** July 13, 2007, 10:36:08 pm »

Matthew,

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I wonder if you'd be willing to share your code from

That app is one I've been looking for, now when I hit the 'Order Button' you get a 404 page :evil:

Is there any way to order this product intratrakker ?