When I started doing the Activist Agenda I used to do it up in Microsoft Word and cut and paste it into an email body and send it out to a list of people that expressed interest in receiving it. Then a few issue developed – Yahoo and other email providers started to block the sent messages.

So I paid for a service to handle the mailing of the AA. This worked out to over $40 a month and would still take about 10 hours to compile.

My friend Conrad Nobert came to the rescue and developed the present web based AA. This saved a lot of time and allowed more people to post their events directly to the AA.

The other day a certain aspect of my email for the store got blocked – anything with my phone number in it. It seems that Telus and/or someone out there that didn’t like the AA marked it as spam and a service flagged us. It was partly our fault because we have not cleaned up the email list for a very long time and there were several obsolete email addresses on our list.

Conrad is spending many hours today going through the list by sending everyone an email to ensure that the email address is correct/current. Sorry for this inconvenience but we need to clean the list up.

IF for any reason you do not wish to receive the AA PLEASE go to the site and unsubscribe. We do not wish to distribute any information that is not wanted.

Thank you

- Posted December 16th, 2011