email newsletter is live

Recently I've entertained the idea of setting up an email newsletter, as in not just an RSS feed notifier (like what I have here) but something independent of the blog.

I tried several different types of mailing list software. The one which is bundled with my web host provider is very efficient and relatively easy to set up, but a severe pain in the ass to use. It is decidedly old-school. A little too old-school. So that was out.

Another I tried suffered from having way too much crap in it. Installation was easy but setup afterward was just plain awful. There were way too many options to go thru and the whole thing was complicated. We're talking pages and pages of options when all you want to do is just set the thing up and go. But even after I went thru all that crap and performed test mail-out, it didn't work. No mail was ever sent. That pissed me off. I deleted it after that.

Then as luck would have it I found a very simple newsletter program. Installation took minutes. Test mail-out took seconds after that and worked on the first try, so I was happy about that.

At present the newsletter is ready to go, so get on it

After performing a bunch of tests I'm pretty sure it will work okay. Not positive, but pretty sure. :-)

What will be in it? Stuff that isn't on the site here. Maybe some interesting things like songs I write that won't be public and only in the newsletter. Maybe some freebie wallpapers I make. And some other stuff too.

I plan on mailing out Issue #1 later this week and plan on making this a weekly thing.

Why am I so intent on a self-hosted newsletter?

This is a very geeky/nerdy explanation, so if you really want to know, hit page 2 (and if reading this from RSS, follow thru to the article to read the rest).

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