"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:KfN0d.26593$MQ5.22945@attbi_s52...
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?


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Jay, if I remember correctly, you do it two different ways.

1) You enter the email addresses that you want to be included in the list. I
think that they are sent a confirmation email and they have to go to a link
to confirm or something. It's simple though, nothing like Yahoo.

2) The user goes to a link, then they enter their email address. I don't
think that there is any confirmation email this way.

You can also set it up as a public or private list.

Best of all, there is no software involved because it's all web based and
it's FREE!

Google also has started groups. It's at
http://groups-beta.google.com/?sourceid=ghpp but don't know anything about
it though. I have a feeling it is very similar though.

Let us know which route you decide to go.


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