Responsible Email Marketing 

These references and resources provide information about email clients, list hosting, participation and marketing, newsletter promotion and newsgroup participation and marketing.

Webmaster T's Reviewed Resources and References:

General Email Marketing Information

eskimo.com/~wallama/
A tutorial on communicating using email.  Some good do's and don'ts.
everythingemail.net
Plenty of good utilities and clients listed on this site.

Email Clients

Pegasus

Eudora

Free Email Addresses

emailaddresses.com
Another fine resource provided by Edwin Hayward. Over 1100 places to get free email addresses. This site is well thought out making it easy to find exactly what you require from these services.
Big Foot
A great service that includes an autoresponder
Excite Mail
Hotmail
Rocketmail:
MailCity:
USANet
http://www.juno.com
Software can be downloaded free from: http://www.juno.comor ordered from Juno at (800) 654-JUNO for a fee of $8.82 for shipping and handling.

Spam Information

spam.abuse.
Great site with links to spam filters and information on spam and its consequences.
seattlelab.com
A list of links to block spam.
provider.com
This is a different view on UCE that I do agree with to some extent. Most of the antispammers would like to see the internet return to the old pre-commerce days of the net.

Lists and Ezine/Newsletters Info

Finding Optin Lists

intrepidmarketing.com
There are a few topics covered here including finding your niche markets.
List Exchange
Information on lists and how to promote them. Also a good list of lists indexed into categories. This is also a good place to promote a newsletter.
The Liszt
A comprehensive list of mailing lists that is searchable.
Tile.Net
A good list of mail lists that are good for promotion.
Web Consultants
A mailing list for web consultants. I suggest visiting the site it's worth it.
Index of mailing Lists
If you are a merchant this one may be of use to you.
Copywriter.com
A list of opt-in lists which are the only real way to find good prospects for marketing.
Post Master Direct
I get some advertising email from this organization they are a great resource for opt-in lists.
Web Promote
They have been around for awhile and probably are not too bad but I have had no real experience with them.
bulletmail.com
Provide a number of opt-in lists in several categories.
Bonusmail
I'm not familiar with them but there was a good recommendation in another list.
Htmail
Direct e-mail advertising without spamming!
Targ-It
Targ-it's claim is 100% opt-in e-mail lists
opt-in email discussion group
Use this address to join this discussion group if you want to learn more about opt-in mail
inetexchange.com
Tips for developing your own lists.
feedME.org
30,000 lists are listed including a search engine and a great utility that enables you to participate anonymously. This is a great way to participate if you don't have or can't get a free account to participate in newsgroups.
inetexchange.com
A list of usenet groups and classified sites where you can post ads.
dejanews.com
If you're looking for niche newsgroups to work this is one of the best search facilities available.

Discussion Lists and Newsgroup Particicpation Tips

Clickz
Another article by Adam Boettiger on the correct approach to mailing list participation. This was actually a series of three articles. Published December 26/97
PTII
Clickz doesn't allow you to link right to the article so the date on this one is December 24/97
inetexchange
Great articles on how to use email to market on the net.
100 Best Email Publications Software
Free software for tracking your subscriptions to a list of the 100 best email publications. This list was compiled by Audette Media so you know the publications on the list are exactly what they claim to be!

List Hosting

Web Tech
A complete tutorial on how to create a mail list. Excellent tutorial because the way it is set up it is almost totally automated with a minimum of CGI programming. Uses the mail program to full advantage.
L-Soft International
This one is a free host however, you must qualify.
Coollist
A totally free mailing list center. If you use one of these freehosts be sure to stay on top of your list management. In othern words think seriously about backing up your list of subs.
Clickz
December 5/97 an article by Andy Bourland outlining the problems he had setting up the daily broadcast of Clickz today. Read this one you can learn just as much from mistakes as you can from perfection.
List bot
This site is a member of the submit-it sites so you don't have to worry about them packing up the tent tomorrow however upon inspection I got the impression it was only for new lists.
wilsonweb
Good article about listserv hosting options and participation. Follow some of the suggested links for some good information on various hosting software such as majordomo.

Ezine Promotion

NEW LIST
They will accept announcements of new E-mail mailing lists which are sent to new-list@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU as long as they conform to the criteria.
NET-HAPPENINGS
The link is tosubscribe to Net-Happenings . Include the words "subscribe net-happenings" in the message area. An example of the proper format for submissions to NET-HAPPENINGS follows in reply to your mail.
John Labovitz's E-zine List
Jim Wilson passed this one along in the Virtual Promote Gazette and suggested that marketers and promoters that don't watch these and their competitors sites is missing the boat on loads of useful information. As usual he's right on!!
trafficdigest.com
Good list of places to promote an ezine or newsletter with some guidelines for content.
Tood Kuiper's
A good list to promote an e-mail, ezine or newsletter on.
writerswrite.com
Comprehensive list of places to promote an ezine/newsletter.
Zine and Ezine Resource Guide
A comprehensive list of places to list your publication.IMI ezine listing service. I have pulled lots of subscribers from my past listings on this page.
LeMaze Resource Center
Over 14,000 promotion and webdevelopment tools for those who do business on the net.
Zinerack.com
Lots of listings here and it is a good place to add yours as well.
List City
Lots of listings and a service for finding people to swap ads with
Online-magazine.com
Over 7500 listings a very comprehensive list of listservs and newsletters.

Free Newsletter Content

cio.com
Some good tips and things to consider when choosing content for a newsletter.
WMO
This article discusses Andy Bourland's use of content and his newsletter to promote clickz.com. Some very insightful information.

Email Advertising

E-advertising center
A list of newsletters that except advertising. This was found on Adam Boettiger's' site so I presume this is a resource that ad buyers use making it a great place to get exposure to this community.
iw.com
In recent months, e-mail newsletters have started to attract significant advertising support for a simple reason: they get the job done. The publisher of InformationWeek reports that promoted in the newsletter. Use this article for sponsorship requests.
reference.com
This site not only archives email publications, the link is to join a list for the free exchange of ads to promote your list. Put 'subscribe ad-exchange' in the body of the message or you can put 'info ad-exchange' for more information on the list

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