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’ve been looking for an autoresponder service, and I’ve tried a few freebies - 2 actually. One of them EGGS and the other one from SFW site, written by David Zohar.

Ok so how did they go?

Well I installed EGGS but it didn’t send emails. The forum where support is supposed to occur is not active and the guy is not answering my emails, even though I donated.

Therefore at this stage I do not recommend this for obvious reasons, but of course that is your choice.

The David Zohar free one was similar, would not send emails. Perhaps it works, perhaps not but since he did not answer my emails requesting help I have to say that unless you are a genius who can debug scripts and possibly rewrite code, I do not recommend this either. This is the current status of both.

In fairness to them both they were free or donation based scripts and you get what you pay for. No support and possibly not working. But this is a review, so I have to report what happened. Not cool tools.

Out of fairness, I will update this, should either of them contact me.

So where did I end up. Well, I did a quick whip around of all the autoresponders I could find and decided that Get Response auto responder had the most bang for the buck. So this is where I will end up most likely.

The other one that was a possibility was Aweber, which has been around for a long time and is used by Jimmy Brown and Yanik Silver.

But a feature comparison put Get Response Autoresponder on top, so I will most likely go with that.

I hope this little report has been interesting. And if you are looking for an autoresponder don’t waste your time with a freebie. It seems in this area anyway, you get what you pay for.