For a school? http://electricembers.net/ is perfect. Reliable systems, great support, lots of options, and sliding scale costs by org budget.
Don't run it yourself--deliverability is nightmare these days for even small lists. --joshua. On Nov 2, 2011, at 9:49 PM, "David N.Blank-Edelman" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi- > I don't know how I get suckered into these things, but I've offered to help > find a place that can host a couple of school-wide mailing lists for my son's > K-8 school. I think each list would have somewhere between 500-1000 members. > All people on this list have already given their consent via a (sigh) paper > form distributed to all students. > > I've looked at: > Yahoo! Groups (fail because you either have to invite everyone or you get > only 10 bulk adds a day) > Google Groups (fail because you can't do bulk adds, plus you need a Google > acct to do a bunch of things. Yahoo! may be similar in this regard) > > I could spin up a VPS somewhere and slap mailman or sympa on it, but I'd > prefer not to set something up that might require my babysitting in the > future (I get enough of that at work. And as they say, postal carriers don't > take lots of long walks for fun when they get home from work). Perhaps there > are shared hosting companies that provide mailman access as part of their > standard package, but I know places like Hostgator get a little touchy > because mailman can't throttle by default (yet?). > > So, does anyone know of a commercial mailing list hosting service they trust? > Cheap and unsophisticated user friendly would be swell. > > Thanks! > > -- dNb > > P.S. if the two large lists work out well, it may be the case that they > would want to create a whole bunch of per-classroom lists also. [the sysadmin > in me thinks, hey, wouldn't it be cool to have the larger lists just be > includes of the smaller ones, but I doubt they will get that sophisticated] > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
