Believe there's a way to override the nomail and send through the list ... but can't recall ... never needed it ... Rene Documented research indicates that on Sun, 2 May 2004 22:55:06 -0400, Linda F. Johnson wrote about "[chadfree] Re: I finally found my article about moving to freelists :-)": >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 >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- Rene Brehmer aka Metalbunny ~ If you don't like what I have to say ... don't read it ~ http://metalbunny.net/ References, tools, and other useful stuff... Check out the new Metalbunny forums at http://forums.metalbunny.net/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-