GEN-EDITOR-L Archives

Archiver > GEN-EDITOR > 1998-11 > 0911765269


From: "Bill Hyatt" <>
Subject: Re: New to list
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 15:07:49 -0500


have author email entire package to someone else and have them email it to
the list of names, saving author hours of time!

-----Original Message-----
From: <>
To: <>
Date: Sunday, November 22, 1998 9:58 AM
Subject: New to list

>Hi everyone:
>I have just subscribed to this list and have a question for all of you.
>
>I am the webmaster for a family association website, and we publish a
family
>newsletter six times per year. This newsletter is typically around 100K in
>size. We send the newsletter out to over 230 people, approximately 65% by
>email, the rest by snail mail. We also make all of the newsletters
available
>on our website.
>
>Our problem is this: the author of the newsletter lives in a remote area
and
>has to pay per hour charges for email access, along with long distance
phone
>charges to send out the newsletters. He can only send out 50 email's in a
>batch, and with each batch, a few are bounced back to him, along with the
>attachment. This, of course, adds on-line time to download the returned
>mail....with the unnessecary attachment. He is also having a difficult
time
>keeping up with the requests to be added to our mailing list.
>
>I have put an automated "mail list" on the website with the aid of List
Bot,
>however, these messages are limited to 10K and we cannot send attachments
with
>this service. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can automate this
>process and make it easier on our author, and less costly?
>
>I appreciate any assistance, and apologize if this is a redundant topic or
>"obviously silly question".
>
>Warm regards,
>Gina Abney
>Centralized Abney Archives
>http://www.geocities.com/heartland/park/2300
>
>
>==== GEN-EDITOR Mailing List ====
>***For Questions, Comments or Suggestions regarding the GEN-EDITOR mailing
list, please write to Pamela Hurak: ***
>

This thread: