You might try MailChimp.com. We recently received a note from a Brigada subscriber who wondered why we went with iContact instead (when we transitioned Brigada away from GoogleGroups and YahooGroups). We happen to use both MailChimp and iContact for different purposes and… I’m not sure why, but for us, iContact just seems easier to grasp and use, especially with a larger list. As far as affordability, with a larger list, to me there’s not much difference in pricing between the two services. But for those getting started, iContact will start collecting $10/month from you even if you just have 250 subscribers. By contrast, MailChimp gives you up to 2000 subscribers for FREE, as long as you don’t generate a cumulative total of more than 12,000 emails/month. So MailChimp wins hands-down for the low-volume or “just-starting-out” user. You get all the normal stuff — templates to help you compose our emails, database features, the ability to track which address opens your email, which address clicks on a link, etc. Check them out for yourself at…
And thanks for the reminder about MailChimp.
We are using MailChimp with ours staff at the USCWM.