[epub] Re: A O L Not welcome.

[MaidenFate@xxxxxxx]

David,

You make some excellent points, but this one was a bit faulty:

<<We, as ezine and list publishers have to ask ourselves...are the people
we want to reach AOL users? My answer is no, because I want to
reach advanced internet users.>>

I've been on the Internet since 1989. I've run several online magazines and 
worked as the overnight editor of The New York Times on the Web. Currently I'm 
the associate producer of content at Real Networks. Just because I use an AOL 
address doesn't mean I'm a newbie. I simply like the service AOL provides for 
$14.95/mo. And when you get 500 e-mails a day, switching ISPs is often more 
trouble than its worth.

(In reality, most of my problems with e-mail delivery have come from Juno, 
Hotmail or MSN.com addresses. Perhaps because people often use Web-based e-mail 
as backup and then forget to read or clean out their their mailboxes. But I'm 
not about to ban all Juno, Hotmail or MSN users.) 

Of AOL's 25.3 million subscribers, I'm willing to bet that a large percentage 
of them will have an interest in cooking, writing, business, "your e-zine's 
topic here." Why lose out on this business? It may be frustrating for the 
publisher, but no one said being a publisher was easy. Work with AOL on getting 
listed on its "I'm not a spammer" list. It's definitely worth the effort.

Jade Walker - http://www.jadedwritings.com
Author, "Sex, Death and Other..." (http://www.metropolisink.com)
Editor, Siren Song (http://www.sirensongmagazine.com)
Writer, The Blog of Death (http://www.blogofdeath.com)
"I think the work defines me. I find it very difficult to be me without my 
work." --Sting


         Please support our sponsor: EmailUniverse.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------
--> Get the Best Minds in the Business for under $1000! <--

Put your email-publishing product or service where 25,000+ pros
  in e-publishing and e-marketing will see it with a flexible
     ad package on the EmailUniverse.com Resource Network.
     Make CONTACT, Build INFLUENCE or Get MAXIMUM IMPACT.
      Enlist EmailUniverse.com in your next ad campaign!
       http://opt-influence.com/nl/pl.cgi?emailuniverse
-----------------------------------------------------------------