If you’ve been looking for an autoresponder, no doubt you have run into the same things I have. They are”

• Free Autoresponders (with advertising)
• Free autoresponders running on your server(sounds good - more later)
• pay to subscribe autoresponders (more on these too)
• Fully owned paid autoresponders existing on your server

There may be others but these are the main ones. I have been looking for an autoresponder for my associates business. It must be comprehensive and must work. Unfortunately the solutions that I have tried did not work and have wasted countless hours of my time.

Paid autoresponder services on monthly fees are something I personally do not like since the data resides on another persons server and this frankly frightens me. I want to control my own mailing list and I don’t want others having access to it. If you don’t care about this then a good option is aweber

I seriously wouldn’t bother with the ones with advertising on them, because they are not professional. You may be getting precious few click throughs anyway and the ones you are getting, you want them to go to your business and not the owner of the autoresponder.

There is one paid and fully owned autoresponder that is not cheap but it is primo. You can have:

• unlimited autoresponders
• unlimited mailing lists

It has a easy to use admin panel and is from a reputable company that has been producing cutting edge computer software for years. It is my choice for an autoresponder service. Click the piccy now to find out about the most well designed autoresponder that will not charge you monthly fees.

Who else thinks phplist should have a sequential autoresponder? My own research has found that autoresponder providers are cleaning up since the cheap and free ones are really annoying and big time wasters.

You can encourage phplist.com to develop an autoresponder if they have enough interest by way of donation. I personally, have pledged $10 if 200 other people donate $10. You can do the same here.

Please send people to this post to start the movement and we can all have an open source autoresponder that kicks butt.

Use this link to pledge support - you don’t need to pay - just pledge what you will pay if they develop it. They need to see the interest there.

Tell PHPlist you want an autoresponder here

I can’t believe this but Cadbury has taken legal action against 4 other baby confectionary companies for using purple. Their claim was that they and purple are ONE in the chocolate business and no one else may use the colour.

In contradiction to this, they have done a private deal with MASSIVE confectioner Nestles,

permitting them to use the colour purple.

Why the double standard? Beats me, but it seems that if you are hardworking privately owned company you are the target of multinationals well funded legal departments.

Darrel Lea whipped their Cadbury butts into a new chocolate treat called - big suckers.

The hilarious thing is that Darrell Lea wasn’t even worked into a lather over using purple - and now use blue - but now have the legal right in the supreme court - to use purple in their wrappings at will.

And it seems that any other confectioner can now use purple at will.

Maybe Cadbury owns some other colours - but Cadbury you are wasting my legal system

with your frivolity - colours are not anyones property but are shared by all - get real.