I have a distribution list of about 200 addresses that I send a weekly (sometimes biweekly) newsletter to. Tonight, iCloud decided to start blocking it and gave me a link that lists guidelines to avoid being blocked. The only additional one I think I can implement is to provide a link to unsubscribe. But now I’m not sure how to accomplish that.
I was thinking that I can add a link to the bottom of the message that takes me to a form that prompts for an email address to unsubscribe. And then have a button that sends the form to me.
It occurs to me that someone could put in other addresses and unsubscribe them. Of course, he doesn’t know the addresses that are subscribing. And I don’t think there’s anyone malicious enough out there who would spend the time doing this. But I wonder how everyone else is dealing with this when they’re managing their own small distribution lists.
So are you saying that I would put the note into Substack instead of writing an email and send it to a subscriber list? Will they be able to read the entire note in their email or do they have to go to Substack to see it?
This is a distribution list for a chess club, and I want to send weekly notices to them of upcoming tournaments and things like that. No one really subscribes except they ask to be on the list, and I add them to the distribution list in Contacts. I want it to be as easy as possible to get & read the content.
Last I knew, Mail Chimp allows you to have a free account for up to 2000 recipients. Suggest you check with them. It’s a newsletter app, like Constant Contact.
There used to be complaints that they were more interested in enforcing political views than providing a service. MailChimp seemed a bit overboard by kicking off users who sent mail that MailChimp objected to. (I’m not saying there were accusations about the mail content being monitored; I didn’t pay a lot of attention to the details.)
