Free mail list servers?

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:41:50 EST
"Hewitt Tech" said:

>A business group that I belong to wants to be able to use a mail list
>server. I know that Yahoo provides a free list server but was wondering if
>anyone knew of any others. Yahoo pays for their "free" servers with
>advertisements that get attached to each message. Worse, they make you sign
>up for their service and of course they get more info than one might want to
>give. Any ideas?

Find someone in the business group with a reasonably fast/stable 
connection to the internet and have the business group maintain their 
own list server.  Really, this is not much different than what GNHLUG 
does:

	Codemeta (owned/operated by Bruce Dawson, a member of said 
	"business group") graciously provides GNLHUG with web hosting
	services, mail list services, lot's of bandwidth, and even 
	more sysadmin time :)

So, find someone in your business group who is either willing to host 
this at their house on a DSL or cable modem, or convince their 
company to provide the same.  As a group, acquire a server, set it 
up, place it in the "hosting facility", and away you go!

The upside is, whichever company/person does this is (IMO) entitled 
to also use the server for "free" advertising in exchange for their 
hosting the server.

The downside is, someone in the group will need to be the 
"Responsible Person"(tm).

Also, look at this as an opportunity to market Linux to this business 
group.  It's pretty tough to not attract someone's attention with a 
statement like, "Hey, I can do this for next to nothing with Linux is 
someone in the group is willing to physically host the system."
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Seeya,
Paul
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