Good-Bye Easyletter
I just deleted my old PHP script EasyLetter from the server. EasyLetter was meant as an easy way to offer a newsletter for your web site and send out emails. It got some good recognition after once being featured on ScreenSavers, but I chose to discontinue it for several reasons:
- It is not spam safe and can easily be abused
- If you want to offer newsletters, get professionals to deal with the sending and data protection - there is just too much to keep up with
- I don’t have the time to answer problems with people’s server configurations any longer
- RSS feeds are dead easy to offer and are voluntary, not enforced data
So please don’t bother asking me for support for EasyLetter, I will not be able to answer, sorry. I might make it open source if there is interest, but I am not at all proud of it and email spam is too annoying a subject not to leave it to professionals.
August 20th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Hi,
It sounds like people liked EasyList - perhaps you think it wasn’t anything special, but someone did.
Could you do me a favor? I’d like to see a copy of your EasyLetter script - not for immediate use. But, If I like what I see, how do you feel about allowing me to make an offer on obtaining the rights to it so I can get a programmer to make it “more professional” as you so intelligently put it?
Thanks,
James.
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:01 am
I do believe that Mr. James Marks is only trying to obtain a copy of the script so that he can use it himself. No one would ever need to receive a copy of your BEFORE they buy it. If they really wanted it, they would immediately buy it or write their own script. I would highly recommend AGAINST allowing Mr. James Marks to have a copy of your script.
November 29th, 2006 at 4:04 am
I liked it. I am new to PHP so I found it simple enough to decifer and use. I put up a slight defense against spam by encoding the text file using the simple PHP base_64 function. Not very secure, but at least it would fool spam bots from pattern matching e-mail addresses from the text file… or would it??? :)
Death to Disco and Spam Bots.
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:20 am
I’ve had easyletter.php setup on a small boutique website for a few years. I rarely used it to send out annoucements, but I probably have 5-10 people sign up for the “news flash” for which I use it every month. I recently got a new laptop and lost the url favorite that I used to sent out the notice to my users. Can anyone help me remember the syntax used for sending out a note to the users of my list?
thanks - danbrew
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:59 pm
I feel a need for a script like this please make it open source. Yes your right sometimes saying you made a kinda software that gets used for wrong can suck. I think its needed to have a flatflie mailinglist as this what i want for my site, I code php and would make the list more safe then what it is but it really sucks its gone form the web not even open sourced. Thank You
February 20th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
well I supose you give us a free tool and a pair of perfect idiots tried to fuck the world with spam!!!. So i want to download a copy of your script just for my personal use, How I can get it?