Run my own newsletter scripts or hosted service

newsletter script

[kensav]

I wanted to start writing a newsletter to my customers and also offer it to visitors of my sites. Currently I'm looking at a couple hundred emails I'll be sending it to weekly.

At what point does it get overwhelming for a midlevel dedicated server to send out emails with me running my own script or will I have to have my newsletter sent out by a hosted service?

Also can anyone recommend any newletter/maillist scripts that will run on Unix/apache/mysql/php server.

[uhwebs]

I have a few thousand subscribers and I like to use "your mailing list provider". To me its easier than worrying about setting it up on my server. I also like to back it up periodically, so if the time comes and I need or want to move my list it's easy.