Bulk email

We recently had our website redesigned. Everything is perfect about it, looks far more professional than our old one. The problem is, someone in our company has been up in arms about a monthly content management fee. I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all, as it allows us to control almost everything about our site. It’s never static, like our old site was, and it’s given us way better search engine presence. This is what they do for the fee:

-Host the site on a secure server
-blog
-discussion board
-add and delete pages
-eblast newsletter feature
-embedded videos and mp3s
-photo galleries
-complete store management system (can change specials daily, easily add/delete products, give out coupon codes, secure checkout, etc)
-email subscriber list manager
-customize keywords for SEO
-site visitor stats
-etc.

They’re also constantly checking up on us to ensure that the site is performing well and giving us advice on the wording, blogs, etc. I like the program because it allows us to do all of this with ease with no knowledge of web code, I feel it’s so easy, my grandmother could do it with no problem.
I can’t seem to get my partner to agree with this, however, and he thinks a monthly fee is a manipulative scam and insists that other web designers could give us all of this features without the fee.
Our old website didn’t have this fee but cost about a fourth more than the new one and didn’t have nearly the amount of technical support and was so unprofessional-looking, it was embarrassing.
I guess my main question is how to get him to see that the fee isn’t unreasonable. I’ve tried to tell him that web design is far more complex than he thinks but he seems to think he can go to school and design one himself.

I want to add an opt-in email box to a few websites….anyone know how (without paying big $$ for an autoresponder and the whole bit)?

preferably an overlay page to opt-in before viewing website content

What is the best way to send an email from a purchased list.
I have bought a list of 50,000 email addresses and want to know what program to use to send it.
Online programs like Conctant Contact and List Mail Pro only allow for emails of people who have opted in-
What is the best Program to use for mass email of purchased lists?

Any javascript solutions? Here is my code:
function CheckMultiple115(frm, name){
for (var i=0; i < frm.length; i++)
{
fldObj = frm.elements[i]; fldId = fldObj.id;
if (fldId){
var fieldnamecheck=fldObj.id.indexOf(name);
if (fieldnamecheck != -1){
if (fldObj.checked){
return true;}
}
}
}
return false;}
function CheckForm115(f){
if (f.email.value == ""){
alert("Please enter your email address.");
f.email.focus();
return false;}
var fname = "CustomFields_1_115"; var fld = document.getElementById(fname);
if (fld.value == ""){
alert("Please enter your First Name");
fld.focus();
return false;}
return true;}

Form:

I need to build an opt-in box & save the name w/email add. in folder. I do not have an auto. rsp. at this time.Name & Email add must go to a folder and the visitor goes to the next page and gets the special offers and discounts. I know that everything is html, but I do not know how to write it.

If i get a persons email from myspace, and send them a commercial message becuase it is relevant to them, if you then follow all the can-spam guidelines, is this breaking the law and considered spam, becuase the person has not opted-in to recieve email… although they have becuase they have put their email on display for people to contact them… otherwise why put your email on a site?… regards.

Hi guys! I have received two emails from @gmail.com AND @hotmail.com on my University’s email account for which I use Microsoft Outlook. Is there any way that I can find the location of these senders? (Atleast the country of sender)?
Thanks.

Hi, I have Mac Mail, and I was wondering if It’s possible to block a persons email address, have it send back to them marked as unread, but have it copied to a separate folder of mine in reality. In other words: I want the sender to think I am not reading his emails, even though I am. Thank you for all your help guys.

I have an sql dump file and it contains values that correspond to images. For instance, here are some of the “INSERT INTO” values from the dump file for the images: ‘96154′, ‘65867′, ‘52892′, ‘24040′, ‘0′, ‘0′, ‘0′, ‘0′, ‘0′, ‘0′, ‘0′, 0, ‘0′, 0, NULL, ‘2005-08-27 20:17:02′, 6, ‘0′, ”, ”, ‘NotifyMe’,

My challenge is that I need to append a “.jpg” to the dump file for these image numbers.

As you can see there are ‘0′ (zero’s) as well. Those are where there is no image present. Each “INSERT INTO” has other values like name, email etc…

Some of the “INSERT INTO” have just one image number and others like the one above has 4 and 6 empty spots where images “could” be.

The reason I need to do this is because my existing database is formatted with the “.jpg” appended to all image files so for it to work it should be ‘96154.jpg’, ‘65867.jpg’ and so on.

I tested my sql dump with the above “INSERT INTO” appending the “.jpg” to the numbers for that one particular “INSERT INTO” and it worked fine. I have thousands of images I need to do this with which is why it is not feasible to just “hand edit” each one.

Does anyone know of a program that will append the .jpg to each file in one bulk edit or how I could do this with SED (streams editor)?

I had another SQL question before this one and got the perfect answer that I used and it worked like a charm! If by chance the person that posted that answer reads this, THANK YOU!