FOR YOUR INFORMATION - mailing-list-hosting.com is focused on providing high-performance newsletter and mailing list hosting at very affordable prices.

Our servers are co-located at MFN/AboveNet, one of the largest Tier 1 data centers with over 200 gpbs of bandwidth, 300 peering partners, and multiple high-speed fiber optic connections across the country and to Europe and Asia.

We use Lyris List Server, a commercial, industrial-strength specialized application designed solely for managing mailing lists, newsletters, and discussion lists.  This software is optimized for high-performance message delivery and features proprietary technology for tracking delivery, processing bounced messages, streamlined subscribe/unsubscribe and more! Lyris is a commercial product that costs from $3,000 to $20,000 depending upon the options purchased, delivery speed, and capacity.

Essentially, we provide our clients with access to this technology on a shared-use basis without the cost and complexity of buying the software, configuring dedicated servers, arranging for high-speed bandwidth, and operating the systems 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

In the "old days", this used to be called "timesharing", but nowadays, the buzzword of choice is "Application Service Provider", (ASP) or simply Software Services Provider.

We have a zero-tolerance towards spam, or unsolicited commercial E-mail.  We require all of our customers to use opt-in or double opt-in subscription services and we do not allow opt-out lists.  We strongly recommend you start with an empty list and build it up, one subscriber at a time, using an opt-in sign-up form on your web site.  Of course, we welcome the transfer of existing mailing lists to our system that adhere to this policy.

We use a very conservative definition of opt-in -- your subscribers must explicitly give you permission to send them the newsletter/messages.  If you have permission to send a client or customer a sales receipt, order confirmation, or other business communication, this does not give you permission to send them your newsletter.  (Please note that there is no single official standard definition for opt-in; some marketers claim E-mail is not spam as long as you have had "prior e-mail interaction with the end-user".  We do not accept that vague definition.)