The Campaigns feature (built into our Data Management and Website services) was designed to help you organize various types of campaigns, including email, direct mail, and online. The simple capability of sending emails was added to the feature, but never intended for heavy use.
Sending large quantities of email is a very expensive and laborious task -- it can cause a lot of administrative headaches, specifically related to spam, mailing list management and legal ramifications.
That's exactly why we created the Email Marketing Campaigns (EMC) service. There are plenty of legal and administrative reasons for us to provide the community a more effective tool for sending emails to their mailing lists.
Here's the important part:
If your organization is actively using the current Campaigns feature to send you, you should start using the EMC service to send your emails instead.
We will be removing the email capabilities of the Campaigns feature at the end of this month (August, 2011), in favor of the new EMC service.
We are providing a free level of service (up to 500 email messages per month) specifically to help our users migrate over to the new service without additional cost.
If you need help getting your mailing list and/or email campaigns setup in the new service please let us know. We would be glad to help.
You can sign-up for the free level of service by going to: Services > Sign up for Email Marketing service from the Manage website:
https://manage.rescuegroups.org
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.