[epub] Switching a subscriber list to a free service

[KKhalife@xxxxxxx]

I really need the advice of you wise ones. 

I have a site that's only been up on the Web about a month, and the first 
issue of my ezine will go out by the end of November. Instead of signing up 
with one of the free list services right off the bat (my first mistake), I 
collected the subscriptions at the site and sent out my own autoresponder 
"thank you for subscribing" confirmation message -- figuring I'd just use the 
e-mail list feature on my Mindspring web hosting account to send out the 
ezines. Well, now that my initial site promotion efforts are beginning to pay 
off and I'm getting more and more subscribers every day, managing the 
subscription list is getting to be too time consuming.

But if I now import my subscriber list to a list at one of the free services, 
all the subscribers are going to get a notification from that service asking 
them to confirm their subscriptions yet again, right? (Am I right or wrong 
about that? I tried testing it on a small number of addresses at egroups; 
some people got a message from them, some didn't.) Since my subscribers 
haven't even received their first issue of my ezine yet, I'm afraid they'll 
feel harassed and I'll lose them before I even start. Can't afford that! Need 
every subscriber I can get. 

What do you think I should do? Import the list now (and change the 
subscription set-up on my site), or send out the first issue the way I 
originally planned -- and put a notice in it telling people that I'm moving 
the list to egroups and they may have to respond to an egroups confirmation 
request?

Maybe I'm worrying about nothing here, but I'd like your experienced take on 
it. Thanks. And sorry this was such a long message!

Katherine



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