Harry D. Corsover wrote: >I think this is accurate. If you want people to be able to post to the >entire list, then you need dedicated email list software, or something >like YahooGroups. YahooGroups has its drawbacks, but it is free, very >easy to set up and maintain, and allows all list members (if you >configure it that way) to post to the whole list. It also has other >optional features, like archives of all posts, a calendar, database >function, and a Files section for people to view and/or download.
I tried to promote use of some sort of list serve/group thing for my high school class. It would have had the additional advantage of permitting people to opt in or out at their discretion, preventing the frequent occasions when people asked to be deleted from the address book group so that they would not be bothered with all this mail that they did not want to receive, and then of course many of their classmates would not comply with the request. But alas, we were from the Jurassic age (class of 1954), and many of my classmates had but a tenuous grasp of this email phenomenon in the first place, so the prospect of having to subscribe and unsubscribe to some list was frightening. I got so weary of seeing some people beg to be deleted, while others wanted to be deleted from chatter, but still wanted to hear of reunions, deaths, etc. I also got weary of being subjected to political opinions and religious opinions that I did not share, and finally I begged to be deleted myself. And of course many people didn't even recall how they had created an address book group in the first place, much less know how to delete an address from it, so I had to get almost nasty in insisting that they let me go. And of course my last posts said something like "see- if you had followed my advice to set up a listserve, I wouldn't have to be badgering you because I could have unsubscribed myself." Beyond any lessons I learned about how Emailer works, I also learned that the fact that you happened to graduate from high school in the same year with several hundred others over 40 years ago does not necessarily mean that you have a lot in common with most of them now. Bill McIntyre San Clemente, CA "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Samuel Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson, April 7, 1775. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
