in a meeting I mentioned a listserv as a good way to send out emails to a ~600 person lists so now I'm in charge of setting it up despite knowing nothing about it.

7/13/2007 7:06:27 PM

http://www.freelists.org/

7/13/2007 7:07:34 PM

Quote :

"ALL LISTS must BE TECHNOLOGY-RELATED. Read about this policy."

i mean im sure i can get some kind of budget for this, so paying for something (software + hosting?) is fine

7/13/2007 7:34:36 PM

oops missed that part.

7/13/2007 7:59:54 PM

http://groups.google.com/

7/13/2007 8:34:24 PM

telling employees to join a google group doesnt look very professional

7/13/2007 8:38:38 PM

employees of the same organization?

if so, does that organization have an active directory?

7/13/2007 8:41:53 PM

well the bulk of the 600 is lifeguards who just use their own email

i dont think we have an active directory, i cant think of what we would need it for. sharing files and databases is all we currently use the network for. i dont know who does our email, im assuming we pay someone to host all that.



[Edited on July 13, 2007 at 8:50 PM. Reason : .]

7/13/2007 8:48:46 PM

dont worry about that option then

7/13/2007 8:51:37 PM

You dont tell them to join anything.

You add their email to the group and done. Im on a listserve with google groups for about 60 people, and it's by far the best listserv I've ever used.

Not to mention if they are using a gmail account, it makes the whole thing 5000 times better than it is (I just use thunderbird and my imap account).

If you want something coming from your own domain, check with your webhost, damn near every one has a built-in listserv script you can install

7/13/2007 9:41:41 PM