1000 people is a large email list. Most ISP's will not let you send that quantity within a short time. You will require a an auto responder. iContact is a good choice as is http://www.aweber.com/pricing.htm. Both have about the same rates. With these two you are looking at about $30/mo for 1000 email accounts. You might want to look at https://www.emailaces.com/order_cc.php Account Level One - Just $2.95 to Start! $8.95 Every 30 Days One (1) Autoresponder Unlimited Followups Unlimited Broadcasts Stores Up To 2,500 Prospects Priority Customer Support ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Trent Shipley wrote: > From: Trent Shipley > Subject: Ham list > To: PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 7:11 PM > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a friend, a belly dancer, who has an opt-in ham list > with roughly > 1000 addresses.  (Of course, with 1000 subscribers a > lot of people will > consider the mailing spam, but won't ask to be removed from > the > list....)  She has divided the list into sub-list of > 50-75 addresses. > Recently her mail often doesn't go through to many of the > subscribers. > The hypothesis is that she has been classified as a > spammer.  Moving > from Cox to Gmail hasn't helped much. > > I am particularly concerned that the anti-Spam filters may > be analyzing > her newsletter and announcement content, and she may be > thoroughly hosed. > > What can she do to regain access to the email communication > channel? > She regards it as vital to marketing her business. > > She is considering subscribing to the services of Constant > Contact or > iContact.  Would that work.  Would it be worth > the price.  I'd be > willing to put two or three weekends into solving her > problem, but that > would be about it.  Even then any solution would have > to be one she > could understand and maintain with only a modest investment > in non-core > skills (core skills are dancing and physical therapy > school). > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpNaLcACgkQ61EDkX3myXqGMQCfZpSFZ4biCkk8C68CKY1QvRUi > NcQAoMs4bJ0BMzNQBpZc42gD4+qy6NtK > =Hy4Y > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss