The questions was more of a hypothetical. Or actually historical since the club was in the situation where we sent 200+ emails out from an AOL account. We now have our own home. But many organizations are stuck like we were - no money so they piggy back off of an AOL account & no website savvy so they are stuck in email.
A significant number in my club want to be emailed with updates and the latest news. They do not want to have to check the website to see if it changed. It is loads easier for me to type something up and spew it out than change the website, and hope everybody checks it. We have the misfortune and need to do everything the cheapest way possible. There may be 208 on our mailing list but a small fraction of them are paying members. (Yes the paying members get notifications the masses don't).
I was not expecting to get suggestions from my comment. Just wanted to voice something from the "little people". Thank you for your suggestions.
We're there now (finally) but just last year shooting 200+ emails from an AOL account was how we had to do it. And there are many more small clubs out there in that situation.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Well, after three years we managed to scrape up enough capital for domain and webhosting. We're not talking big business here. We're existing month to month.
If it's free and efficient, point me to it.
So if I email an event notice to my club membership list of 208 addresses, (given freely for this purpose) I'll be labelled a spammer unless I split the mailing up over 3 hours?
There are other ways to find spammers besides shear output.
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A significant number in my club want to be emailed with updates and the latest news. They do not want to have to check the website to see if it changed. It is loads easier for me to type something up and spew it out than change the website, and hope everybody checks it. We have the misfortune and need to do everything the cheapest way possible. There may be 208 on our mailing list but a small fraction of them are paying members. (Yes the paying members get notifications the masses don't).
I was not expecting to get suggestions from my comment. Just wanted to voice something from the "little people". Thank you for your suggestions.
We're there now (finally) but just last year shooting 200+ emails from an AOL account was how we had to do it. And there are many more small clubs out there in that situation. Thanks for the suggestion.
Well, after three years we managed to scrape up enough capital for domain and webhosting. We're not talking big business here. We're existing month to month. If it's free and efficient, point me to it.
So if I email an event notice to my club membership list of 208 addresses, (given freely for this purpose) I'll be labelled a spammer unless I split the mailing up over 3 hours? There are other ways to find spammers besides shear output.