Bulk Mail Research Articles

AI Based E-Mail Scraper and Sending Tool

Abstract: Our research ‘AI BASED E-MAIL SCRAPER AND SENDING TOOL’ is basically a fast, affordable and easy-to-find marketing and communication solution. Using email cangreatly help businesses as it provides an efficient and effective way to advertise variety of electronic information. Email extractor is a type of software used to extract email address fromonline bases which generate a huge list of email addresses. Even though these extractors can assist multiple genuine purposes such as marketing campaigns, unfortunately they are mostly used to direct spamming and phishing emails. Email filter is a tool to extract emails based on specified criteria. It split up all types of emails such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail in various text files according to their name automatically. Email validator is a toolto check the validation of email existence these means it checks that given mail is originally exist. It checks the username of email in all the mail facility for the existence. Bulk mail sender tool is work on distribution of a lot of mail at once. You drop anemail list to director to send the letter to the user. You can sendmail to a multiple user at once. There is no restriction for this tosend the mails.

Token Management System

Token Management System is used to manage crowds / queues efficiently by issuing tokens in customer-facing businesses and departments. Since time plays a significant role in human life, the main objective of this project is to reduce the wait time for customers and make their service smooth. Token Management system is a public initiative to help every enterprise publish their calendar of resources (people, counters, meeting rooms, interviews rooms, queues etc) along with their available capacity and time slots for the public to take a token. They can book their own appointment by their name and receive a token online (no OTP, email or mobile number is mandatory).This will help avoid unwanted queues and waiting time for the public. It also brings significant discipline and saves a lot of time which when put together saves billions of hours every day. Key features for an organization: Organization registration, publishing services, token prefix and suffix, time-zone, working hours, slot timing, number of slots and seats for each slot, tracking the appointment list for each queue by date/time and option to update status as completed, cancelled or now show up. It will also include making announcements that will appear to the public, options to support bulk mailing and options to enable email and mobile as mandatory.

Randomized experiment on the effect of incentives and mailing strategy on response rates in a mail survey of dentists.

Response rates for mail surveys of dentists and other health care providers have declined appreciably over the past several decades. The objective of this study was to update evidence about the impact use of incentives and different mail strategies on response rates in a mail survey of dentists. We randomized private practice dentists in Iowa (N=1267) into six study groups to test the effects of incentives and mail strategy on response rate. Survey incentives included either a $2 bill or a customized pen/stylus; a control group with no incentive was included. Mail strategies included bulk mail or first-class stamps. The overall survey response rate was 43%. A $2 bill incentive was associated with significantly higher likelihood of returning a survey compared to the control group with no incentive (48% response rate vs. 40%, respectively). A non-monetary incentive was not significantly associated with likelihood of response. Use of first-class stamps compared to bulk mail did not significantly affect response rate. This study demonstrated the effectiveness of a $2 incentive to increase response rate in a mail survey of dentists. Given the background trend of declining survey participation rates, researchers should consider use of monetary incentives and explore new strategies to increase participation among dentists and other health care providers.

E-MAIL SPAM DETECTION

E-mail is the most important form of communication. Used for a wide range of people including individuals and organizations. But these people using this e-mail they find it difficult to use because of spam mail. These spam emails are also called unsolicited bulk mail or junk mail. Spam emails are available randomly sent messages to people by anonymous users. Sites are trying to steal yours personal, electronic and financial information. An increase in spam emails leads to crime of theft of sensitive information, reduced productivity. Spam detection is dirty. The line between spam and non-spam messages is blurred, and the condition changes over time. From various attempts to automate spam detection, machine learning has so far proven to be the most effective and popular method of email providers. While we still see spam emails, a quick look at the trash folder will show how many spam is removed from our inbox daily due to machine learning algorithms. It is estimated that 40% of emails are spam mail. These spam wastes time, storage the space and width of the communication band. There are a few ways to receive spam emails but spam senders make it difficult for you to send users from a random sender address or by adding special characters at the beginning or end of the email. There are several machine learning methods for filtering spam emails including Naïve Bayes classifier, Vector support equipment, Neural Networks, Close Neighbour, Rough Sets and Random Forests. In this project we use the Naïve Bayes classifier to identify spam mail. The vast majority of people depend on what is available email or messages sent by a stranger. Possibly anyone can leave an email or message provide gold the opportunity for spam senders to write a spam message about us different interests. Spam fills in the inbox with a number of funny things mails. Slow down our internet speed. Theft useful information such as our details on our contact list. Identifying these people who post spam and spam content can be a a hot topic for research and strenuous activities. Email Spam is functionality of mass mailings. From the cost of Spam is heavily censored by the recipient, it is a successful post proper advertising. Spam email is a form of commercial advertising economically viable because email can be costly effective sender method. With this proposed model some message may be declared spam or not use Bayes' theorem and Naive Bayes’ Classifier and IP addresses of sender is usually found.

Working to Increase Stability through Exercise (WISE): screening, recruitment, and baseline characteristics

BackgroundThe aim of this paper is to describe the utility of various recruitment modalities utilized in the Working to Increase Stability through Exercise (WISE) study. WISE is a pragmatic randomized trial that is testing the impact of a 3-year, multicomponent (strength, balance, aerobic) physical activity program led by trained volunteers or delivered via DVD on the rate of serious fall-related injuries among adults 65 and older with a past history of fragility fractures (e.g., vertebral, fall-related). The modified goal was to recruit 1130 participants over 2 years in three regions of Pennsylvania.MethodsThe at-risk population was identified primarily using letters mailed to patients of three health systems and those over 65 in each region, as well as using provider alerts in the health record, proactive recruitment phone calls, radio advertisements, and presentations at community meetings.ResultsOver 24 months of recruitment, 209,301 recruitment letters were mailed, resulting in 6818 telephone interviews. The two most productive recruitment methods were letters (72% of randomized participants) and the research registries at the University of Pittsburgh (11%). An average of 211 letters were required to be mailed for each participant enrolled. Of those interviewed, 2854 were ineligible, 2,825 declined to enroll and 1139 were enrolled and randomized. Most participants were female (84.4%), under age 75 (64.2%), and 50% took an osteoporosis medication. Not having a prior fragility fracture was the most common reason for not being eligible (87.5%). The most common reason provided for declining enrollment was not feeling healthy enough to participate (12.6%).ConclusionsThe WISE study achieved its overall recruitment goal. Bulk mailing was the most productive method for recruiting community-dwelling older adults at risk of serious fall-related injury into this long-term physical activity intervention trial, and electronic registries are important sources and should be considered.

Remote Research Hinders Recruitment of a Diverse Sample.

Remote Research Hinders Recruitment of a Diverse Sample Beth Prusaczyk Funding. This work was funded by the Institute for Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis When the pandemic began, many researchers sought to capture the historical event from the perspectives of different groups of people. As someone who conducts research related to older adults, I knew the pandemic was a matter of life and death for them. Along with my colleagues, I wanted to understand the pandemic's impact on older adults from a "whole-person" perspective. We wanted to know how older adults' health and mental health were affected and what they saw as the positives to come out of the pandemic, and how the pandemic fit within the other events in their lives or lifetime. Therefore, we began a study for this purpose and designed it, knowing it would have to be conducted during the pandemic. We did not have to transition a pre-existing study into this new environment and were able to plan for an entirely remote operation. For their part, the IRB reviewed and approved the study quickly, though we purposefully chose not to collect Protected Health Information (PHI) so that our study would not have some of the required restrictions and protocols necessary when collecting PHI. We had conducted studies online or over the phone before, but we were still not prepared for some of the challenges we faced. From the beginning, we decided to make a concerted effort to recruit older adults who were low-income, Black or African-American, or identified as LGBTQ. We wanted to ensure our sample did not represent only more privileged older adults who were likely to navigate (and literally survive) the pandemic better than these other groups. However, our intentions to recruit a diverse sample were met with significant logistical challenges as we attempted to conduct a fully remote study during the pandemic. First, we knew we would be using an online survey since there was no way we could have in-person study visits at this time. An online survey would be the easiest and most efficient way to reach a large number of older adults. Second, we also wanted to compensate our participants for their time but what would normally be trivial tasks for an academic research shop—the purchasing of gift cards, printing letters, addressing and stamping envelopes, and putting them in the bulk mail—became impossible in the pandemic. Therefore, we decided we would send e-gift cards to the participants' email addresses. However, both the online survey and e-gift cards would require the older adult to have Internet access, have the proficiency to navigate the online survey, and use email; things not every older adult may have, especially those who are low-income. Fully virtual/remote research, whether done out of convenience or necessity, brings with it a significant cost to recruiting and enrolling diverse populations who are often excluded from research to begin with. [End Page 37] For participants who did not wish to take the survey online, we offered them the option to complete the survey over the phone with a research assistant. However, again in normal times, the research assistant would call from their desk phone at the university and leave that call-back number on the person's voicemail. Now, our research assistants were all working from home, all over the country, with phone numbers representing those different areas. Many participants would not answer calls from numbers they did not recognize or that were outside of the area. Furthermore, we did not want the research assistants to have to expose their personal cell phone numbers for the study, but if they blocked their number when making calls, participants would understandably not answer a blocked number either. If the call went to voice-mail, we had the research assistants leave my office number as the call-back number. Of course, I was also working from home and was then having to regularly check my voicemail and try to quickly relay returned calls to the research assistants so they could try the participant again. It wasn't until very late in the study that we set up the...

The effect of dispatch methods on a recruiting campaign for a business survey: evidence from Germany

ABSTRACT The ifo Institute for Economic Research has been conducting the ifo business survey since its foundation in 1949. To ensure stability of participation rates, regular sample recruitment is indispensable. Does the dispatch method matter for response rates of a recruiting campaign? To answer this question, we conducted a controlled experiment involving invitation letters sent out to over 8,000 German industrial firms in May 2019. Our results show that standard mailing significantly increases the response rate compared to ‘Dialogpost’ (bulk mail). From a cost perspective, costs for standard mailing outweigh this effect.

TCS: ‘Hazir SubKuch’—Making Everything Present

The case describes the journey of TCS as it became Pakistan’s leading logistics service provider. It highlights how and when TCS acquired different logistics and other value-adding capabilities and how these capabilities, in turn, complimented the diverse logistics services that TCS offered to a wide variety of businesses. TCS had been offering a top-notch Express and Logistics service around Pakistan for 30 years. TCS started as a company providing secure distribution of letters and packages. Customers perceived TCS as a shipping solution provider for all their goods transportation needs which included parcels, documents, E-commerce products and even their groceries. Table 1 of the case study highlights that TCS had taken up some unique and new initiatives. TCS handled four main clientele areas: Corporate, Consumer, International and E-commerce. For consumer wing, TCS oversaw bookings of documents and parcels at the express centres, door-to-door containerized shipments, domestic and international air ticketing, visa application drop box facility for various countries and financial services in the form of insurance plans. On the corporate side, TCS provided warehousing and distribution, digital printing and bulk mail solutions. International and e-commerce both catered consumer and corporate segments. Over the last decade, TCS had established a warehousing and distribution wing and a mail management and printing facility. Other ventures and services that TCS offered were Visatronix, Hazir, Home Movers, E-COM, TCS Aviation, Mail Management System, Warehouse and Distribution, Intiana, Sentiments express and Octra. The case focusses on the decision of whether or not to run an ambitious new logistics service, that is, Hazir SubKuch (HSK), meant to deliver anything non-prohibited that a customer wanted, on a crowdsourcing model. In the proposed crowdsourcing model, after training and evaluation, anyone could assume the role of a customer service provider by connecting to the system remotely. Similarly, pickup and delivery jobs could be performed under an Uber-like model by anyone who owned a ride and had smartphone connectivity. The service was a brainchild of the new CEO, hired by the founder and chairman as part of the new management team to bring a fresh dynamism in the company.

The Effect of Dispatch Methods on a Recruiting Campaign for a Business Survey: Evidence from Germany

The ifo Institute for Economic Research has been conducting the ifo business survey since its foundation in 1949. To ensure stability of participation rates, regular sample recruitment is indispensable. Does the dispatch method matter for response rates of a recruiting campaign? To answer this question, we conducted a controlled experiment involving invitation letters sent out to over 8,000 German industrial firms in May 2019. Our results show that standard mailing significantly increases the response rate compared to “Dialogpost” (bulk mail). From a cost perspective, costs for standard mailing outweigh this effect.

Why Not Call a Margin Squeeze a Margin Squeeze? The Strange Case of UK Mail Delivery

After almost 5 years of investigation, on the 26 October 2018, the UK Office of Communications (‘Ofcom’)1 issued its first infringement decision under the Competition Act 1998.2 It found that Royal Mail (RM), the UK postal incumbent, abused its dominant position in the market for delivery of bulk mail and imposed a £50 million (approx. EUR 56 million) fine. Ofcom found that RM deliberately excluded Whistl by engaging in price discrimination. The case is currently under appeal in front of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT).3 This article considers this decision a step backwards in the approach to exclusionary behaviour. The approach, analysis, and information in Ofcom’s decision do not allow the reader to conclude whether an exclusionary abuse has taken place. This would have only been possible if Ofcom had framed the case as RM potentially abusing its upstream dominant position in Rural and Sub Urban zones by engaging in a margin squeeze in a downstream nationwide bulk mail delivery services market.

The Poste Italiane Decision by the Italian Competition Authority: Sorting out Non-replicability

In December 2017 the Italian Competition Authority (the Authority) issued a decision (the Decision) against Poste Italiane (PI), the Italian incumbent postal operator and designated provider of the universal postal service.1 The Authority found that PI had abused its dominant position in the wholesale and retail markets for the provision of bulk mail services, by offering business customers (i) tracked bulk mail services that could not be replicated technically or economically by its competitors and (ii) exclusive/loyalty rebates. In February 2018, PI appealed the Decision to the Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale del Lazio and the judgment is pending at the time of writing. This article first summarises the Decision and then provides an economist’s perspective on some of its key aspects, before concluding.2 The case related to the provision of bulk mail services in Italy by postal operators to business customers, such as the mailing of utility bills and bank statements from utility companies and banks.

The EU Regulatory Framework for Access to the Postal Network

The Postal Directive does not oblige Member States to mandate access to the postal network of the universal service provider or to regulate the conditions under which such access is provided. It is left to the discretion of the Member States whether to introduce a mandatory access regime or not. If Member States decide to introduce such a regime, they must take into account that, at least where bulk mail is still part of the universal service, the tariff conditions for so-called ‘downstream’ access to the postal networks must respect the non-discrimination obligation of Article 12, 5th indent of the Postal Directive. This implies that no distinction can be made between, on the one hand, postal operators competing end-to-end with the universal service providers, and, on the other hand, bulk mailers or intermediaries working on their behalf, who inject mail under the same operational conditions. Also from a policy perspective, it does not seem desirable to allow such a difference in treatment (ie, ‘positive discrimination’ in favour of end-to-end competitors) as it is likely to be counter-productive for the development of competition in the postal sector.

Investigating Adaptive Nonresponse Follow-up Strategies for Small Businesses through Embedded Experiments

Abstract The U.S. Census Bureau is investigating adaptive Nonresponse Follow-Up (NRFU) strategies for single unit businesses in the 2017 Economic Census. These collection protocols require a suite of viable alternative procedures that can be implemented. With business surveys, the majority of cognitive research and nonresponse follow-up procedures focus on collection methods that obtain valid response data from the larger businesses, and there is relatively little quantitative or qualitative research for small businesses. Moreover, the contact methods for small businesses are often constrained by budget limitations. Business programs at the U.S. Census Bureau rely on mailed reminder letters and supplemental promotional materials, with options for certified and bulk mailings. To explore the benefits and disadvantages of the proposed alternative nonresponse follow-up procedures for small businesses, we conducted a field experiment embedded in the 2014 Annual Survey of Manufactures, an annual program that has similar data collection procedures and sampling units as the Economic Census. This article describes the study and presents the results, then discusses how the recommended nonresponse follow-up procedures are implemented in an adaptive collection design test presently being conducted in the 2015 Annual Survey of Manufactures.

Clarivate Analytics: Continued Omnia vanitas Impact Factor Culture.

This opinion paper takes aim at an error made recently by Clarivate Analytics in which it sent out an email that congratulated academics for becoming exclusive members of academia's most cited elite, the Highly Cited Researchers (HCRs). However, that email was sent out to an undisclosed number of non-HCRs, who were offered an apology shortly after, through a bulk mail, which tried to down-play the importance of the error, all the while praising the true HCRs. When Clarivate Analytics senior management was contacted, the company declined to offer an indication of the number of academics who had been contacted and erroneously awarded the HCR status. We believe that this regrettable blunder, together with the opacity offered by the company, fortify the corporate attitude about the value of the journal impact factor (JIF), and what it represents, namely a marketing tool that is falsely used to equate citations with quality, worth, or influence. The continued commercialization of metrics such as the JIF is at the heart of their use to assess the "quality" of a researcher, their work, or a journal, and contributes to a great extent to driving scientific activities towards a futile endeavor.

Ian McEwan’s Atonement: A Virilian Reading

<p class="a">Paul Virilio is the theorist of speed or “dromology”. In his terminology acceleration is relevant to time and space. Virtualization is also another seminal concept in his theory which is of course essentially related to his conception of time-space. In this essay, we argue that human perception as pertaining to speed-space and light-space as well as the different versions of reality arising out of different ways of body positioning is one of the major themes of Ian McEwan’s <em>Atonement </em>(2001). In McEwan’s novel both architecture and art mislead Briony. Paradoxically, however, Briony also attempts to overcome her trauma through the art of writing in which several versions of reality emerge out of shattered images of the past. The novel foregrounds issues of art, perception, time-space, speed and their interrelations and as such a Virilian reading would be most relevant.</p><p>1-2017 (Print) ISSN 1911-2025 (Online) Email: ass@ccsenet.org <br /><br />Copyright © Canadian Center of Science and Education <br /><br />To make sure that you can receive messages from us, please add the 'ccsenet.org' domain to your e-mail 'safe list'. If you do not receive e-mail in your 'inbox', check your 'bulk mail' or 'junk mail' folders. and lawfulness compared to district 3. In addition, t-test results showed that the aspect of effectiveness has the best condition with a mean of 3.21 and the aspect of participation has an unfavorable condition compared to other aspects with a mean of 2.58.</p><p> </p>

Postal Services: Survey of Competition Law Developments

The Court of Justice of the EU (‘CJEU’) has issued a significant judgment regarding grants of downstream access to the postal network of an incumbent operator in the bpost case, in which it concludes that differential treatment as between direct customers and consolidators regarding quantity discounts is not inconsistent with the non-discrimination requirement under Article 12 of the Postal Directive. The CJEU has also given a judgment under Article 102 TFEU concerning volume rebates given by an incumbent postal operator in a second case concerning Post Danmark. The European General Court has upheld a European Commission decision that certain Slovak legislative changes involved a re-monopolisation of hybrid mail and infringed Article 106(1) in conjunction with Article 102 TFEU. In the State aid area, the CJEU has ruled that Germany failed to recover State aid from Deutsche Post, with regard to business-to-business parcel services, while, in the case of Polish Post, the European Commission has approved the use of a compensation fund to finance the provision of a universal postal service. As regards the national competition authorities, in Germany the German Federal Cartel Office has found an abuse of dominant position by Deutsche Post concerning its tariffs for bulk mail customers by means of a margin squeeze, and in the UK Ofcom has issued a Statement of Objections in relation to Royal Mail's wholesale services for downstream access to its postal network.

IMPROVED SPAMBASE DATASET PREDICTION USING SVM RBF KERNEL WITH ADAPTIVE BOOST

Spam is no more garbage but risk as it includes virus attachments and spyware agents which make the recipients’ system ruined, therefore, there is an emerging need for spam detection. Many spam detection techniques based on machine learning algorithms have been proposed. As the amount of spam has been increased tremendously using bulk mailing tools, spam detection techniques should deal with it. In this paper we have proposed Hybrid classifier Adaptive boost with support vector machine RBF kernel on Spambase dataset. We have also extracted the features first by Principal component analysis. General Terms: Email Spam classification.

Optimal three-level presort loading of commercial bulk mail in the postal service industry

This study focuses on the presort loading of commercial bulk mail. Here, presort is the process by which a mailer prepares mail such that it is sorted to at least the finest extent required by the postal service provider for a claimed (discounted) price. We formulated this presort loading problem (PLP) as a special case of transportation problem with minimum quantity commitment (MQC) constraints. In addition, we developed a polynomial time optimal solution algorithm for the PLP and performed computational experiments on randomly generated problem instances under various discount structures. Results of the computational experiments show that mailers can potentially reduce their costs by sending mail less frequently, using small-sized mail trays; however, the discount structure does not affect the main results. There is some evidence that smaller cost reductions on mailing fees occur as the variation in the discount rate increases; however, the effects of discount structure are nominal compared with the gains from changing the mailing frequency. Mailing fee savings are more heavily influenced by the discount structure when MQC constraints become tighter.

Strategies of active dissemination of workplace health promotion

Purpose – A growing body of literature provides evidence for the efficacy of workplace health promotion (WHP). However, little is known about effective dissemination strategies for WHP interventions. The purpose of this paper is to describe how a WHP agency in Zurich, Switzerland, used bulk mailings, information events, telephone marketing and free initial consultations for the large-scale geographic marketing of WHP services, with a focus on tobacco prevention (TP). Design/methodology/approach – To analyze the number of companies responding positively to solicitation, examine the predictors of positive responses and explore the reasons for negative responses, the authors used both quantitative (e.g. a standardized questionnaire) and qualitative (telephone interviews) methods. Findings – The results show that except for telephone marketing (69 percent), the success rates of dissemination activities were very low (3-9 percent). Predictors for a positive response were institutionalization of WHP, the representative’s personal concern about TP, and problems with environmental tobacco smoke within the company. The most prominent reason for a negative response was that the companies had already implemented TP measures by themselves and needed no further external support. Practical implications – It is suggested that TP was the wrong emphasis for a WHP program to be disseminated at that particular time, because a law on protection from passive smoking was introduced in Switzerland shortly afterwards. Originality/value – The study examines dissemination strategies under real-life consulting conditions. It builds on on a large sample of companies and uses both quantitative and qualitative research methods. It reports specific numbers and success rates of marketing activities and thereby contributes to the knowledge about an important issue for intervention planning in the field of WHP.

Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Study: Recruitment and Baseline Characteristics

Recruitment of older adults into long-term clinical trials involving behavioral interventions is a significant challenge. The Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders (LIFE) Study is a Phase 3 multicenter randomized controlled multisite trial, designed to compare the effects of a moderate-intensity physical activity program with a successful aging health education program on the incidence of major mobility disability (the inability to walk 400 m) in sedentary adults aged 70-89 years, who were at high risk for mobility disability (scoring ≤ 9 on the Short Physical Performance Battery) at baseline. Recruitment methods, yields, efficiency, and costs are described together with a summary of participant baseline characteristics. Yields were examined across levels of sex, race and ethnicity, and Short Physical Performance Battery, as well as by site. The 21-month recruiting period resulted in 14,812 telephone screens; 1,635 participants were randomized (67.2% women, 21.0% minorities, 44.7% with Short Physical Performance Battery scores ≤ 7). Of the telephone-screened participants, 37.6% were excluded primarily because of regular participation in physical activity, health exclusions, or self-reported mobility disability. Direct mailing was the most productive recruitment strategy (59.5% of randomized participants). Recruitment costs were $840 per randomized participant. Yields differed by sex and Short Physical Performance Battery. We accrued 11% more participant follow-up time than expected during the recruitment period as a result of the accelerated recruitment rate. The LIFE Study achieved all recruitment benchmarks. Bulk mailing is an efficient method for recruiting high-risk community-dwelling older persons (including minorities), from diverse geographic areas for this long-term behavioral trial.