farmboy - 2:04 pm on Dec 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

I had 18 months of email addresses collected as newsletter signups from the website. I put all 3000 email addresses into the newsletter provider's software, with a double opt-in, and then proceeded to enjoy a short holiday in hell thanks to AOL and their overly strict regime.

I experience my own headaches with AOL users as I've stated elsewhere, but sending an email to "subscribers" up to 18 months after the signup really is a disaster waiting to happen - and not just from AOL users.

A delay of just 18 days will result in some people forgetting they requested a subscription - much less 18 months. Probably the best thing would have been to stop accepting signups until a regular series of newsletters was available.

FarmBoy