At 3:33 PM -0600 2004/02/28, ALexia Helfand wrote:

 I'm looking for a program that will help me organize my mailings and I'm
 wondering if Mailman is the answer.

Don't know. Let's take a look at your requirements.


                                     I need to be able to add new people
 to my lists,

Yup.


              have a tracking system so that I know how many people who
 received the email actually read it,

There is no mail system on the planet that will actually let you do this. Send everyone to a web server where they are forced to log in, and you can track where they go. Even if they "view" a page, you can't be sure that they actually read anything on it.


                                      organize things so that I can send
 one email to lots of people even though my mail server only allows me to
 send to 45 people at a time.

Not a problem.


 Please let me know if Mailman is the answer. Also, would it have to be
 installed on my host server,

Depending on what they're running, this may not be a problem.


or could it be installed on my PC?

Depending on what your OS is, it could run on your PC.


                                                                 If
 mailman is not what I am looking for, pointing me in the right direction
 would be greatly appreciated.

For handling reasonable sized mailing lists, I don't know of any better freely available tool than Mailman. There are commercial tools which may be better, but they cost money.


But I don't see any way that any program on Earth can help you around this problem of being able to have a guarantee that you know exactly how many people received your message, and of them how many actually read it.

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