Heck...with all the filters on the ISPs now, if I sent a bcc mail to all of my members who are set to "no mail", half of them would probably not receive it (and bcc would be about the most automated way I could do it....send the addresses to Excel, sort on the Subscribe Type column, pull those into Outlook, and send them the mail all in one shot) Linda Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com ABC Free Ezine ~ Free Ebooks and Tutorials *all outgoing mail scanned by Norton AV. If you got a bug that looks like it came from me, it did NOT! -----Original Message----- From: chadfree-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:chadfree-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of -{ Rene Brehmer }- Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 9:28 PM To: chadfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [chadfree] Re: I finally found my article about moving to freelists :-) Your saga reminds me of something we debated on one of the SpamCop groups once: when you've got people on nomail ... once in a while (like every 6 months or once a year), send them an email and remind them that they're still subscribed to the list ... The Mercury list I'm on (which runs of Listserv on Alabama University) does this. Also if you haven't posted anything for 3 months, it sends out a friendly reminder that you're still subscribed, and how to unsub or change settings if you want to ... Although it means getting mail from a list they've asked not to get mail from ... many people forget that they're subscribed to a list ... for one reason or another ... it means that you'll 1. get those unsubbed that no longer wants to be subscribed ... and 2. you can see if any of those old moldy addresses bounce...and get them out of the system ... the more dead addresses there is in a listserver, the slower it runs because it's got more data to process.... Rene -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Was this forwarded to you? Want to subscribe? Send an email to chadfree-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe. For a complete list of email commands for our list send an email to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line of "info chadfree" without the quotes. If you wish to unsubscribe from our list send an email to; chadfree-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe To contact the list moderators send an email to chadfree-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-