Educate Me Please

[John W. Redelfs]

I've been running lists for many years as the listowner.  My first lists 
were ListServ, ListProc and Majordomo.  But for the last few years I've 
been using such free list servers as Topica.com, Smartgroups.com, and 
Yahoogroups.com.  Today I have decided to go back to paying for my 
lists.  The free servers are just too crappy anymore.

My website hosting service won't run a Majordomo list for me, so I am 
shopping for a new host.  I've found two that I'm interested in but one of 
them runs Smartlist and the other runs Mailman.  I'm probably going to 
decide between these two companies based on a comparison of the mailing 
list managers. I'm really not interested in running one on my own machine.

Can anyone here help me with a comparison between Mailman and 
Smartlist?  My main list has 80 members and averages about 26 messages per 
day.  I have a number of other lists, but they enjoy even less traffic.

A couple of other things. I like to administer my lists by email, not on 
the web.  And to me, one of the most important features of a MLM is 
archives that can be downloaded to my hard drive by FTP.

What do you think?  Am I asking the right crowd here?  If not, where should 
I go for answers?

Sincerely
John W. Redelfs, [EMAIL PROTECTED]