On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:03:38 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:

Take a look at http://www.coollist.com . I send out a "newsletter" type
email from time to time, and this works just fine. Just type out your
"email", hit send and everyone in your list gets it. I think that they can
even read it archived online if they wish.

This has potential -- but (I obviously haven't delved deeply into it yet) is
there anything the recipient has to "join" in order to receive the
newsletter? Or is it just essentially automated email?

this is called "confirmed opt-in"
you don't want to be listed to a hundred lists without your consent,
therefore you receive an automated email. you usually only have to reply
without changing anything and you are done.

The main drawback of Yahoo Groups is the requirement to "join" the group
through a rather extensive series of web-based forms. I know a lot of our
old-timers (and some of our young-timers, too!) regard using the internet as
a giant pain in the butt, and I fear they would take one look at it and
throw their hands up in frustration.


if you run soemthing like mailman you as the operator can unsubscribe and
subscribe through a web interface.

I have a test mailinglist running. you can contact me at martin AT hotze
DOT com and I will give you access to the test list so you can see it and
play with it. then you can ask your hoster if we can install this software
for you.

These same folks USE email every day -- so while I want MY end to be
web-based, I want THEIR end to come through as email (if they want) OR be
web-based.

I want to make membership in this group as painless as possible -- for the
recipients and for me!

I strongly suggest that you invest the money in a new domain solely for
this purpose.

martin

--
The more one is absorbed in fighting Evil,
the less one is tempted to place the Good
in question. (J.P. Sartre)