Simple listserv tools?

[Cary Gordon]

Constant Contact is an email newsletter. It does not allow subscribers
to post. We use MailChimp, which does pretty much the same thing.

Cary

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Richard Wiggins
<richard.wiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
> Try Constant Contact.  Free 60 day trial, $15 a month afterwards.  Also I
> have no experience with them, but check out listserv.org.
>
> By the way, the term "listserv" is now about like Kleenex as a brand gone
> generic, but, FYI, the original LISTSERV is the grand daddy of all such
> tools.  It originated before the Internet became popular on Bitnet, then
> evolved into Eric  Thomas' Revised LISTSERV.  His commercial product lives
> on:   http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv_license.asp
>
> /rich
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Sherry A. Mandelco <smandelco at lw210.org>
> wrote:
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>> Wilhelmina,
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>> This site may offer what you are looking for.
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>> http://www.freelists.org/
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>> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
>> Behalf Of Ross Singer
>> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 8:41 AM
>> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Simple listserv tools?
>>
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>> On Apr 20, 2012, at 8:32 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote:
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>>
>> OK, gonna send this out again...
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>> What are simple hosted tools for running a listserv?
>>
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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>> I'm not sure why Google Groups' 'invite members' is not adequate.  Yes,
>> they need to confirm their membership, but this doesn't seem an incredible
>> burden (and it does provide a sense of opt-in for your group members).
>>
>>
>>
>> -Ross.
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>> -Wilhelmina
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>> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:12 PM, R. Wood <rw at ncf.ca> wrote:
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>> 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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