This is what I needed to complete my first Joomla site...You have did a good thing for the open source community.

Comparing the Free version of Acajoom News to PHPList, PHPList wins because it has an auto-responder that requires subscribers to CONFIRM their subscription. Without an auto-responder, a malicious user could unscrupulously subscribe anyone that this user pleases for whatever nefarious purposes this user has in mind.

I've unpublished this as it doesn't yet satisfy my needs...everyday I am being draw further and further away from Joomla as it too is diverging from the concept of open source. Freeware does mean free beer!