HNA E-News: Now being sent through VerticalResponse

Dear Subscribers to the HNA E-News:

After several dozen hours and many fruitless online and by-phone
chats with tech support (often on distant shores), I was unable to
resolve an issue involving sending out the HNA E-News from the
address <halcyon92@gmail.com> to multiple addresses (now around 420).
That's why there's been such a gap between newsletters (not lack of
news!). After much consideration of various options, and in light of
many neighbors stating a preference not to be on another listserv but
rather wanting to continue with an edited newsletter format, I am now
sending out the E-News through VerticalResponse, an email marketing
business that offers 10,000 free emails a month to qualifying
nonprofits (HNA is entitled as an affiliate of the umbrella Berkeley
Partners for Parks). An edition went out around 10:50 p.m. Wednesday.

There are pluses and minuses to any method; at least with
VerticalResponse the ad at the end is modest -- just a link to their
site and that's all. One downside, however, is that the E-News comes
from a VerticalResponse address ( "Halcyon Neighborhood Association"
<Halcyon_Neighborhood_Association@mail.vresp.com>), which means the
edition I mailed out Wednesday night might have ended up trapped by
some of your spam or junk mail filters. So this is your notice if you
didn't receive the recent E-News to check your spam or junk mailbox
and do what you need to do to prevent that happening next time.

Thanks to all for understanding, and please check those spam filters
if you want to be sure to keep getting the E-News. As always,
correspondence regarding HNA, submissions for the E-News, and
changes in your email address, or notification of a desire to
unsubscribe, should come to <halcyon92@gmail.com>, HNA's official
email address, though VerticalResponse will forward any messages
accidentally sent by "reply" to their designated mailer address.
--
Nancy Carleton
HNA Co-Chair and E-News Editor
3044-B Halcyon Court
Berkeley, CA 94705