> -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:08 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: What can she use for an announcement list? > > I could use this group's advice, please. > > The one thing she will need outside HTML hosting is her announcement > list, > which we currently run using iMail's list server capability as a > discussion > list that only allows the moderator to post to. > > What would you all suggest as a solution to this problem?
How many people are we talking? There are quite a few client-side listservs/newsletters many are free and many of the commercial ones are free for small lists (50 to 100 people): http://www.emailman.com/win/mailinglist.html http://www.tucows.com/software.html?t=689&pf=win http://www.nonags.com/nonags/ems.html http://download.lockergnome.com/category/26425/29550 http://www.filehungry.com/english/showcase/windows_software/e-mail_tools/mai ling_list_managers/?order=pd&filter= These range from actual listservs (discussion groups) to simpler announcement lists (no member interaction) - they run client-side (in various ways) with the simplest ones just monitoring a POP email address for sub and unsub messages. For true discussions the computer should be left on most of the time... but for a small group 24/7 really isn't super important. As long as she turns the computer one for an hour or two a day messages will get processed and the free exchange of information will proceed apace! For that matter if the list is really just announcements (no member interaction) and the group is small perhaps she might get away with just using her basic email client as is. Really all these announcement program do is send messages with multiple BCC's anyway. Outlook does an excellent job with email list management (but she'd need to manage the list functions - sub, unsub, etc - by herself). The ISP in question might have a limit for large email groups to prevent spam but I'd be surprised if the limit were less than, say, 500. In any case many of these tools come with their own SMTP servers built in which would eliminate that issue. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:254754 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
