Elizabeth --
Thanks for this. But the note you're responding to is from a year and a half ago; since then I found out that, yes, LSoft would have helped us, but the person actually editing the newsletter much preferred MailChimp (even though I thought, and still do, that its commercial focus was inappropriate). And it turned out that for a list the size of ours it's free as well.
(And I have to say I think the name Constant Contact suggests a position I don't want to be in . . . )
-- Russ
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Russ Hunt
Professor Emeritus of English
St. Thomas University
http://people.stu.ca/~hunt
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Subject: Re: Alternatives for hosting a list for a non-profit group
I used to volunteer as editor for the American Hemerocallis Society's newsletter. I used Constant Contact. It was easy to use and their customer service was great. It's not free, but very reasonable.
The Daylily E-News was educational and we didn't sell anything. We just promoted membership. I did take some gardening related advertising to help defray the Constant Contact fees.
Elizabeth Trotter
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 4:21 PM Russell Hunt <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
I am pretty sure I've seen a reference to the fact that LSOFT has a practice of occasionally hosting lists gratis for charitable or non-profit organizations, but I've just been searching for it and can't find it.
The reason I'm doing this is that I manage a small announce-only list (c. 1600 subscribers) for a local arts support organization. It's a newsletter which sends out every week a list of all the "artistic" events in the local (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada) area. We've recently run into problems with our phpList provider, and I'm looking for alternatives. I thought of LISTSERV immediately because I've been managing a few LISTSERV lists for some decades, and am comfortable with the interface. But the universities hosting the lists I own have no policy about hosting lists other than those directly connected with their own faculties and interests.
We have no budget for list distribution: we underpay an editor to assemble the weekly list and I do management as a volunteer. I've been looking for alternatives that aren't commercial marketing tools, and don't cost much. We had considered MailChimp at one point, but it seems designed for marketing (as does ConstantComment). We're not selling anything . . .
If anyone has a suggestion, I'd be happy to hear it.
-- Russ
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