Ken,
Read your post and thought I would time myself doing my ezine for my other project at
http://hairee.com.
It took me just over 40 mins and its html.
Here is the way I do it.
I collect all of my comment from previous replies and format them all the same fonts etc in Word. As it is a discussion list I dont go overboard checking typos etc.
I then go into my last ezine and open it in my web editor. I save the page as a copy but re-named. So last weeks was 56 I rename as 57.
I then simply replace all the copy with what is on my Word Doc.. When pasting the html into my email manager I then have to go through the html and make sure all the link tags for images are right.
Click and send to 3,000. That really is it.
I do the same with my ezine at Orange Beetle.
Hope this helps Ken