On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:23:39 GMT, Jay Honeck wrote:

set up a REAL mailinglist.
-- http://www.freelists.org/

Thanks for the tip.

I just checked it out, and I fail to see how this service provides any
advantage over just creating a mailing list using any common email software.

What am I missing?

as Chris W already pointed out.

Mailinglists are the preferred method of distributing mails to many
recipients. it has built in features like confirmed (!!) opt-in, password
reminders, web-archives, digest setting, moderation, vacation, me-too,
ACKs, filters, etc. etc.

you might also set up different lists like:
IOW-announce
IOW-discuss

unsubscribing from a list is easy.
unsubscribing from a list maintained in your mailclient is not, you always
rely on the maintainer.


hth, #m

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