I am utilizing SmartList provided by my hosting service (I have no access to change program settings other than add, delete, newsletter, moderated, etc.). My list is set as a newsletter with the intent that subscribers sign up and we send them a newsletter once a month. We should be the only ones able to send messages to the "list."
I used SmartList for the first time on 9/18 (when the Nimda virus hit) and although I had done an updated virus scan on my system prior to sending the newsletter to the list, the Snow White virus somehow attached to hundreds of the mailings (thousands went out okay though) and ended up bouncing our newsletter all over the place, often reappearing in people's boxes 20 or 30 times. When the infected recipients "replied" to the newsletter, the mails were then sent to various and sundry e-mail addresses, but generally not to the e-mail address of the list.
I now have to do a new mailing and am scared to death to repeat the same performance. Anyone have any words of wisdom for me?