P3D Re: Dejanews Communities

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:11 AM 12/29/98 , you wrote:
>At 05:56 PM 12/28/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>In addition to dejanews, you might also look into egroups.com and
>>onelist.com.  They offer free mailing list services with subscriber's
>>option for digest, regular e-mail or Web access.  They can be moderated,
>>and I believe they DO promise address security.  They are also supported by
>>advertising, but, based on the list I started their, the advertising is
>>minimal and unobtrusive.
>>
>>-pd
>>
>
>Thanks Peter - yes, I'm looking at OneList and Egroups - They appear to
>be about 6 of one or 1/2 dozen of the other, although at this point I'm
>*slightly* more inclined to try OneList. A nice feature on both is
>that you can opt for an "adless" mailing for $60 per year. Maybe we
>could pass the hat to come up with that (from 1000 subscribers, that's
>probably reasonable) or maybe one of our commercial outfits would be
>willing to underwrite the list for that amount per year in exchange
>for a one or two line text link to their site.
>
>I'm posting this publically since as soon as I return to Montana I'll
>be taking down Calcite - a new set of problems have turned up now
>that there is faster access to RMC (actually, calcite isn't the problem -
>it's the main server - but if that's out then Calcite can't talk either).

I would gladly chip in the $0.06 a year to pay for ad-less service.
eGroups.com also offers an ad-less option.  I don't know how much they
charge.  The two look very similar.  I'm currently using the eGroups.com
service for one of my lists.  Some people had lots of trouble figuring out
how to sign up, but we've gotten past that.  Some have also complained that
the digest isn't a real digest, but merely a pointer to the Web site where
the messages are archived.  I don't know if OneList is any better.

-pd


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