Newsletter business

Posted on the Squeetus Blog November 28, 2005 08:25 AM PST.
We sent off the first volume of The Squeeter Pig this weekend. If 
you signed up and didn't receive yours, you either entered your email 
address wrong (several few bounced back) or your ISP is blocking me. 
Almost all the "delayed delivery" messages I got were for email 
addresses ending in aol.com. I've had emails with some questions about 
the newsletter that I'll answer here:
"Can you include a way for people to unsubscribe?"
Ack!
 First volume and already people want out? The person who asked, I 
believe, was being helpful and suggesting additions that other 
newsletters have. Of course, she was assuming that we're sophisticated 
enough to set up such a system. Pretty much, if you want to unsubscribe,
 you just email me with the request, and then I hunt through the file 
with all the email addresses in it and delete yours. Pretty low tech. 
I'm happy to do it, but don't worry, as promised we'll only send out The
 Squeeter Pig twice a year and won't use your email address for anything
 else. Oh, and I might sell it to a Viagra vender, but that's 
all...okay, I'm kidding.
"Where are the fan essays you asked for?"
Excellent
 question. The problem was my lack of foresight. We decided not to 
include fan essays in this volume because we only realized after the 
fact that it was a difficult thing to include in a newsletter. 300 words
 is a lot of text for a newsletter but not quite enough for an essay, 
and the newsletter was getting long as it was. The book reviews by young
 readers worked much better, and we'll keep taking book review 
submissions for future newsletters. Thanks to those who submitted the 
essays. You're very cool!
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