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title: Opener should skip old contacts
description: I would like to follow up with the opener after sending the invitation request. Unfortunately, old contacts are also written to.
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# Opener should skip old contacts

## I would like to follow up with the opener after sending the invitation request. Unfortunately, old contacts are also written to.

Answer:

There are two possibilities,

1. You limit the "Check number of contacts if an opener may be sent". 
     1. You count all new contacts that should be written to (if there are many, do a network export first and then count the rows of the table).
     2. You enter this number into the field "Check number of contacts, if an opener may be sent" in the opener function.
2. You use the CompLeadly blocklist

Tip: Use the network export to get a table to upload to your blocklist. Delete all contacts from the table you want to send an opener to, so that only those to be blocked are in the table. Upload this table into the blocklist.

 

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