FeedBurner Email Service is Updated

Feedburner has updated it’s new opt-in email subscription service for bloggers:

We have appreciated the positive response to this service from our publishers, long-timers and newcomers alike, and today we fulfilled the number one request: subscriber list management. Now, in the Email Subscriptions service area for your email-enabled feed, you may;

View a sortable list of all of your subscribers and their status: active, unverified (they requested a subscription but have not yet activated it), or bounced (their address doesn’t work)

Export this list in Microsoft Excel or Plain Text (CSV) format

Manage individual subscriber activation status

We know a good number of you are also looking forward to richer formatting, branding, and introductory message customization options. We haven’t forgotten about you! We plan to get to all of that fun stuff soon. As always, More To Come.

What I don’t understand is how they could have offered an email service without the forgoing in the first place. What were they thinking? I’ve come to expect more from Feedburner. I think I’ll pass and wait and see if the product matures a bit more.

In the mean time I will continue using FeedBlitz. It meets my needs and their support is excellent.

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