Email Subscription Migration Update
If you subscribe to this blog via email you might see some strangeness while the list migrates from FeedBurner to Aweber but hopefully the end result will mean a much better email experience 
Update: The import is complete but somehow I have to turn off the FeedBurner emails (thousands of them) and I can’t see a simple switch so might mean lots of clicking.
Also fighting the crufty Aweber template system. Bizarrely you can’t test your changes into your email box, and while you can hand-craft a simple broadcast message to test a one-off email, you can’t save your template. Pasting HTML code doesn’t work either because the WYSIWYG interface changes all your code when you try to enter the Aweber syntax for titles etc. I’m sure I will get it sorted, the Aweber guys have been very helpful which is a marked improvement in service level from what I am used to (I guess you get what you pay for).
More updates as things progress
Posted on April 15th, 2008 by Chris Garrett in News
Hi Chris
Why are you switching? Have you had issues with FB’s email subscriptions?
Do all the Feedburner subscribers have to go through the Aweber confirmation process?
Will you be writing up your experience of transferring subscribers across?
@Dave - People were not opening the emails and/or complaining because the subject lines never changed. Aweber blog broadcast allows each message to have an appropriate subject line but right now I am fighting the template system so the move is not 100% yet, hence this message
@Dominic - I will be writing up about the experience, yeah
Holy cow Chris, 3,600 new RSS subscribers in one day :).
I guess those are the guys that were on Aweber before and not counted by feedburner?
Heh, I’m not going to get too excited just yet
Chris, receive your test email, which i saw Aweber, thought it was something. Hope you have successful updates your email migration.
Looks like the scrapers like your email subscription, too.
I saw this http://geeksfeeds.blogspot.com/2008/04/chrisgcom-test-post-for-email.html after noticing a link back to my site from this http://geeksfeeds.blogspot.com/2008/04/boost-your-business-blogging-and-new_14.html - what’s really amusing about this particular scraper is that it seems to be publishing all of the guy’s tech-tagged email indiscriminately: even the spam! A good demonstration of the point you make elsewhere about the importance of having a self-identifying footer in your feed. (I really must get around to doing that!) Can’t stop the scrapers, so we might as well use them for advertising, yes?
@David - Seems ok so far
@Jen - Heh, yeah, they don’t all include the links but enough do to make it worthwhile, if only so they are easier to spot