I started the Geek Mamas newsletter a couple years ago, but always forget to send it out. So imagine my surprise when I finally did send it this month and Mail Chimp sent me a spam notice and basically said I need to start over or have everyone reconfirm.

*2025 Update: I finally closed the newsletter because I hadn’t sent it in over a year! I prefer to use WordPress subscriptions.

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If you are on a phone, you have to scroll way down to the bottom of the front page posts.

Signing up means you will get blog posts right in your e-mail, and only the posts you are interested in reading. So, I hope you’ll give it a try!

I Don’t Like Spam

I get really annoyed by newsletters, advertising e-mails, etc, that constantly pop-up in my in-box. Even if I like the company, I don’t need to hear from them twice a week. I get so many e-mails than even once a week is pushing it, but I do have one or two that I keep around.

So, I am weirdly hesitant about sending newsletters. I always feel like I’m bugging people. But then I remind myself that these people actually signed up for these e-mail sooooo I should probably actually send one. And then I did and then 2.8% of those people decided to report it for spam. Was it something I said??

So, as of 2025, I went ahead and sent out one last newsletter and am closing the Mailchimp account.