The latest motivation for me to continue my fruitless search for a decent web host is Bluehost’s Mailman implementation. I just sent them a detailed help ticket about the fact that my mailings are not being delivered. I can’t wait to see how long it takes for them to send yet another of their inane replies indicating that they barely read the message. We’ll see.
I just found another company – more expensive but they seem very personalized and competent. They also promised me that their mail servers are whitelisted with AOL. (Part of the problem with BluieHost may be blacklisted servers. The other part of the problem is that if you send too many emails (more than a few hundred in one day as you easily might with their mailing lists) they start discarding mail instead of either delivering it or throttling it. (They throttle it too so who knows when your mail is delivered if at all.)
I will go for the monthly plan this time. If it goes well I will recommend them to you.