There are many open source alternatives for eMarketing than paying out hundreds and thousands of dollars. Below is a list of applications which I believe can be potentially be used as email marketing alternatives.

OpenEMM
http://www.openemm.org/

YAP Email Manager
http://www.makisoftware.com/dnn/YAPEmailManager.aspx

Dada Mail - web-based e-mail list management system
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mojomail

phplist - a newsletter manager
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplist

tellmatic - php and mysql based newsletter script to create, manage and send personalized newsletters or mass mails
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tellmatic

Mailman - a GNU mailing list manager that provides list management features, integrated with a web interface
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailman
http://wiki.list.org/x/DgAJ

poMMo - mass mailing software
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pommo

If you do require any assistance in installations of the above applications. Feel free to contact me on: asfahaan@tasmanit.com

Recently, after running updates for Windows Vista and Microsoft Office, many users were facing very strange problems with Microsoft Word 2007. My personal experience was that it would suddenly crash without any error message, and any changes to the document were not saved.

Reported problems:

Solution for Microsoft Word 2007 crashing problem:

Delete the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data registry subkey.

Make sure you backup your registry!

1. Click Start windows the Start button, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
2. Find and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data
4. Right click on data and select delete or (On the Edit menu, click Delete), and then click Yes.
5. Exit Registry Editor.
6. Restart Word.

Hopefully if all goes well! Your smooth running microsoft word 2007 will be back like before.