Simple listserv tools?

[Cary Gordon]

You are going to find that pretty much all legitimate hosted mailing
list services will require an opt-in in compliance with the CAN-SPAM
act.

There may be off-shore services that can meet your requirement.

Cary

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke <randtke at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, gonna send this out again...
>
> What are simple hosted tools for running a listserv?
>
> I want something like what Google Groups used to be:  I log in to something
> someone else set up, I create a mailing list, that mailing list has an email
> address, I add people to the mailing list (this is what I can't do with
> Google Groups anymore), and then each person on the mailing list both gets
> all email sent to it and can send email to it.
>
> -Wilhelmina
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:12 PM, R. Wood <rw at ncf.ca> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 03:57:29PM -0500, Wilhelmina Randtke stated:
>> > All,
>> >
>> > I want to set up a mailing list where all subscribers on the list can
>> > also
>> > post to it.
>> >
>> > I went to make a mailing list, and - wow - Google Groups which I've used
>> > for lists before now requires an admin to send invites to members, and
>> > then
>> > members opt in.  From experience, I need to be able to subscribe people
>> > without them clicking a link, because if I send them a link to
>> > subscribe,
>> > most won't click it and then will ask why they were never added.
>> >
>> > What simple hosted tools do you use for setting up listservs?
>> >
>> > -Wilhelmina Randtke
>>
>> Mailman is a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) mailing list
>> application that is worth a look.
>>
>> Have Fun with GNU/Linux,
>> R.
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