I found this article to be extremely useful for me. Thanks!…

Well, I’m glad to hear that it wasn’t a server meltdown like some others have experienced.

In regards to your autoresponder, I hope you are considering switching as well. Proof of subscription is extremely important. One thing that I have seen lately and really like is adding the ip address, date, and email used to subscribe in the footer of all mailings.

Actually it had nothing to do with too much traffic… my former host shut me down because of a false spam complaint from a subscriber who forgot they signed up — and since my autoresponder doesn’t log the time, date and IP address of the request AND confirmation (in fact they don’t log the time at all and only a small percentage of the IPs showed up), then the host made their inconvenient decision.

I’m pretty sure they knew I was telling the truth but they had to stick by their strict TOS… so with my new host I made sure that the policy was innocent until proven guilty instead of guilty until proven innocent.

This is info I shared with my friends and not my entire list, but I did want to set the record straight when I saw your take on it posted here.

And luckily Derek had set up a link on his site instead of my usual practice of doing a redirect from mine — and as a result we didn’t lose any customers.

Thanks for your concern though!
Heather