In July 2008, I hope to complete the transition to my new newsletter-mailing company. Many of you know I already attempted sending a message through them last month (April), but results were a *disaster* for half of my subscriber list – especially for those of you who use WhidbeyTel for your ISP.  Delivery rates to WhidbeyTel addresses were miniscule, to say the least!  And I am very sorry for that.

I have worked with tech support on both ends since then, and it appears we have taken the "help" about as far as either end is willing to go with it.  Beyond that, it seems that if you use WhidbeyTel for your ISP, you will HAVE to add the following 3 addresses (and my email address too, just to be safe) to your Trusted Sender list in your WhidbeyTel account in order to receive my newsletter delivered to your inbox, rather than having it filtered out as spam.  If you don't know how to do this, please contact WhidbeyTel tech support for assistance; I know they have already helped some of you to do it.

While I recommend that *everyone* add these 3 domain names to your Trusted Sender lists at your ISP level – it appears to be critical for WhidbeyTel subscribers to do so if you wish to continue receiving my newsletters and future emails.  Thank you for taking a few moments to add these 3 domains as well as my email address to your Trusted Sender list:

icpbounce.com

icontact.com

app.icontact.com

While the format for inputting domain names into your Trusted Sender list may vary from ISP to ISP, the format for WhidbeyTel’s Trusted Sender list is to put a    *@     immediately in front of the address.  Again, I urge you to contact your tech support department if this is foreign to you.

Please remember to add these 4 lines (the 3 domain names above and my email address, too) to your Trusted Sender list before the 1st of July so you don’t miss any of my future newsletter issues.  It is my plan to stop using my current newsletter-mailing company at that time, and I’m sure most of you who subscribe to my newsletter don’t want to get lost in the process.

And one final thing:  you’ll notice that there are now two links at the upper left-hand corner of my website for subscribing to my newsletter.  The top one will subscribe you through my old newsletter-mailing company (which I’ll only use through June ’08), and the other one is for my new company.  If you are just now subscribing to my newsletter, please be sure to click BOTH links and subscribe to BOTH.

Thank you for your patience while we work through this transition.  Once we get it accomplished and newsletters delivering as they’re supposed to, I think we’ll both like this new company, as it offers several options that my current company does not.  AND it has better delivery to *common* email addresses such as yahoo, hotmail, msn, etc.