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]
> 
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