On 24 Mar 2001, at 12:31, schergs wrote:
> Thanks to those of you that answered me. I actually got the reply I
> was looking for in a later list message that was received so thanks
> for that. I'm just following the conversations for now. I have just
> had to change email addresses and was having trouble finding any pop
> mail that was available and was thinking of trying pegasus as opposed
> to outlook. I'm just tossing a few things around for now. I also have
> a newsletter which I mail through my own isp and using outlook so I
> have to be careful of not damaging that, too. Basically, I'm shopping
> around for ideas right now. I do pay for whatever online time I use so
> web mail, despite the fact that I don't like it, is not even an option
> for me.
Let me suggest a non-topical idea here...long, long ago in a galazy
far away, I used to distribute a zine through my ISP using my email
client to send out the newsletter. My ISP did not like me doing that
much at the time, but they never said anything. Today's ISPs are a
lot more strict and aggressive about these matters and you could lose
your account if you cause too much strain on the service's mail
servers. Of course, it would depend on the size of your list, but it
might grow. Back in those old days I had a zine that began with 1
subscriber and it grew to over 2000. Something like that really can
hog the resources of your service provider for things in which it was
not intended.
Fortunately we all have an inexpensive alternative today that I did
not have back then -- namely free mailing list hosts. For example,
if you have a Yahoo account, you can quickly set up a mailing list
with many cool features that you would never have by manually
distributing your list. Plus your provider will thank you, believe
me. :-)
Yahoo mail accounts can be used as remote pop3 accounts, so with any
Yahoo account you can get a lot of things for your money -- which is
nothing. :-)
Check it out, Sandy. :-)
http://groups.yahoo.com/
Alan
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