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Mailing Lists -
Does anyone know where to go to get a Mailing List?
I also recommend Ecosoft. I use them for one of my lists and they are great.
If you are looking for a free list then I highly recommend stargame at:
http://www.stargame.dyn.ml.org/index.html
They are very good and have a majordomo list that is supported through small adds at the bottom of each post.
Coollist on the other hand is basically useless. 9 out of 10 posts never make it to subscribers. I have moved my coollist lists to stargame and it is like night and day in the difference.
These of course are only my opinions. Hope they help.
-- Heather A.
Anyone looking into mailing lists might want to check out
http://server.com/WebApps. Nothing beats free... ;)
-- tudlp@netwide.net (Ed Sterrett)
HOWEVER, that is a one-way mailing list. You get subscribers, then you can send to them all at once with a click of the button on your listowner's webpage.
If someone is looking for a "real" mailing-list, like this one, where any subscriber on the list can send messages to all, and reply -- WebApps is NOT that list.
Other free options for that, however, include getting in touch with your local community network. Many of them will provide free mailing lists. I have several on Seatttle Community Network.
-- Anitra Freeman
Follow this link to go to a good mailing list site:
http://www.esosoft.com/mailinglist/
Its what I use for my mailing list, and is really reasonable.
-- Mike VOT
If you wanted lists to join or you wanted your own mailing list. But if you want your own you can get one at
http://www.listbot.com/.
Besides ListBot, you can also check out
http://www.onelist.com/
to start a free mailing list.
Here's some mailing list search engines:
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
http://liszt.bluemarble.net/
http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/lists
http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml/bysubj.html
http://catalog.com/vivian/interest-group-search.html
-- Jennifer (a.k.a. Quark's Latinum Lady)
More news about OneList.com.
The ads are small and unobtrusive. The server and the web page are VERY fast. And all list members can post to the list without Moderator intervention. All in all a very cool service.
-- Bill Wilson
Mailing lists like this one are two-way: any subscriber can send posts to the list, as well as receiving posts.
The "free mailing lists" that I have checked out, like ListBot, are one way. The owner of the list can send mail out, but noone else can.
This is great if you want complete control. You can have anyone who wants to contribute to the discussion send mail to you, you compile it (like a digest) and send it out.
It's also slow and takes a lot of work.
If you want to encourage free exchange between all members of the list, there are alternatives available. I have set up several mailing lists by
1) requesting a mailing list from our local community network. Many cities and educational institutions have "freenets" or community networks, a nonprofit internet service provider. The Seattle Community Network runs many free mailing lists for everything from activists to book discussion clubs.
2) Requesting a mailing list from the Internet Service Provider who provides accounts to several of the nonprofit agencies I am involved with.
This worked for me because they could report it as a charitable contribution; however, I have had other friends with regular paid email accounts whose ISP's were willing to provide a free email list.
3) Ask your ISP how much an email list service would cost. It may be low enough for you to afford, especially if it is important enough to the others in your group that they are willing to chip in.
-- Anitra
Well, funny you should ask.
One other option - run your own mailing list software. The Listserv Lite free edition will support up to 10 lists of 500 names each, and there is a Win95 version, as well as NT and Unix.
L-Soft makes this available for no-charge nonprofit lists - go to
http://www.lsoft.com/listserv-lite.html
to check it out.
In this case, you'd need a dedicated pop3 account to run your list, and you could either get one from a generous ISP, or sign up at geocities or netttaxi or....
Hope this is helpful.
-- Greg
