digests are the last/recent posts. they can be whatever you want. email newsletters. site updates. whatever
phplistmanager is free. if you contract someone to do work for you, they probably will charge you. I assume that the "fee involved" that you mentioned.
From what I see phplist is only free with the trial version.
After that they charge you per message or subscriber.
We have no time limit on the Trial account. Unless you explicitly ask us to remove it, or when emails sent to you bounce may we decide to remove your trial account. But even when it bounces, we will probably wait some time before actually removing it.
However, the trial account is limited in volume: It allows you to send up to 300 messages per month with a daily limit of 50 messages..
Gizmo as I stated before it would be nuts to manually update 14,000 members one at a time.
I think the phplist would be the way to go If I can get the export to ubb. It appears I could use the table in phplist or a csv file.
I just need to signup at least for the free trial. They have a demo login but...
