You might look at using eForum (open source) at www.jcorporate.com. In addition to handling discussion forums it can also be used for one way out going emails. As a discussion forum, expresso's user forum has 3245 subscribers which has numerous postings each day. As announcement forums Expresso News has 9K, and general new has 16K+ subscribers. eForum handles nicely; and with recent releases quickly. Also the last revision has integration with Lucene for search.
Alternatively one of our Expresso community members has built an opt-in mail system - which is closer to what you are describing, If you are interested contact me off-list and I will put you in touch with them. Sandra --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

