Ham list

[Trent Shipley]

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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).

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