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Just a thought

04 Oct 2013, 09:43

I don't know if this is even possible, but has anyone tried to get many of the email addresses from the old forum so that we could send out a simple broadcast email stating the new auto-hotkey.com site and that interested users should go here and register?

Or perhaps there is a better way to let everyone know? I only found this because I took the time to read the ugly thread on the old site. We can't depend on that as a way to get the word out.

Eventually, google will show the new site for prevalently, but that will take time.
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Re: Just a thought

04 Oct 2013, 11:00

If you have a way to collect said Email addresses i would love to hear it.
unfortunately they are all in the DB and Poly isnt sharing
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Re: Just a thought

04 Oct 2013, 11:53

tank wrote:If you have a way to collect said Email addresses i would love to hear it.
unfortunately they are all in the DB and Poly isnt sharing
I figured as much, but thought it was worth asking.
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Re: Just a thought

04 Oct 2013, 17:13

What about sending a simple pm to each user?
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Re: Just a thought

04 Oct 2013, 20:47

Alibaba wrote:What about sending a simple pm to each user?
If only we had a programming language that could be used to automate such a thing :)
Maybe someone has some free time, but clearly we need a way to send out a notice to as many as possible.
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Re: Just a thought

05 Oct 2013, 04:12

Firstly, who want to create the message to send, it is not my language. I work to a solution, maybe that will fail or take too long time.
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Re: Just a thought

05 Oct 2013, 06:34

I think it's not hard to parse the member list.
The problem is to automate the pm sending.
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Re: Just a thought

05 Oct 2013, 06:48

Yes and no, that just take time (forum are slow with protection), there are 26620 users and that will take 8 days if we send each 10 sec (not multithreaded script)... but to pm is half useless that will not automaticaly resend a mail (that is an option), and pm will stay unread...
And at this moment Poly make the website unstable, I prefer to wait, or will be too much error in log...
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Re: Just a thought

05 Oct 2013, 07:48

Zelio wrote:Yes and no, that just take time (forum are slow with protection), there are 26620 users and that will take 8 days if we send each 10 sec (not multithreaded script)... but to pm is half useless that will not automaticaly resend a mail (that is an option), and pm will stay unread...
And at this moment Poly make the website unstable, I prefer to wait, or will be too much error in log...
yes i agree. At least let the poll finish. (14th october)
Till this day, it's theoretically not sure, that the majority wants to move.
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