WorldCast

by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, E-Commerce Consultant
Web Commerce Today, Issue 59, June 15, 2002

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WorldCast

Fairlogic Systems

http://www.fairlogic.com/worldcast/

Type: Desktop

$49 single user license. Imports and exports to many databases and lists. E-mail validator, crash recovery, multi-threaded sending, direct delivery. Internal HTML editor, spell checker.

List Size:
1K to 5K

Empl:
one

Training:
2 hr

Cust Serv: NA

Qual: 4

Ease: 5

Country:
US

Strengths: Great inexpensive shareware program. Mail list is in CSV format and can be combined with the message text. Extreemly easy to use.

Weaknesses: The email list is tough to clean-up. Duplicates are removed. However I still have not figured a way to remove the bad email addresses.

Missing? I have been experimenting with Gammadyne Mailer and it is a totally different level of program. As my list grows I will migrate to a more robust program such as Gammadyne. However for small lists (less than 2000) the WorldCast product is great.

List Size:
1K to 5K

Empl:
26 to 100

Training:
2 hr

Cust Serv: 2

Qual: 3

Ease: 3

Country:
E_SE_Asia

Strengths: easy and fast.

Weaknesses: less customable fields that can be insert into the text.

Missing? no

List Size:
25K to 100K

Empl:
2 to 6

Training:
2 hr

Cust Serv: 5

Qual: 5

Ease: 5

Country:
W Eur

Strengths: You can: 1 - Send unlimited personalized emails with DNS 2 - manage subscription/cancellation from to unlimited mailing list 3 - Recover crash during sending 4 - is very cheap (only 49$)

Weaknesses: sometimes it crashes (about 5% of times)

Missing? none


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