To all admin / HCI / Net knowledgeable types

[gusl]

Do you know of a mailing list / web forum system satisfying the following requirements:

* Allows posting by both web interface or sending an email
* Gives users the choice to read through: email interface, web interface. (intermediate solutions, such as "daily digest by email" and "receive only new topics by email" are a nice plus)
?

YahooGroups is a pretty good solution, except that it has advertising. (I bet we would pay a good amount to get rid of it, but Yahoo doesn't seem to provide this option )

I am trying to organize a set of mailing lists for my institute: this is my idea

Comments

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

Hey I think Majordomo can do the job very well since it's been around for about 20 years. If they need hosting for it let me know.

[literalgirl.livejournal.com]

I swear by L-Soft's Listserv software. They are well-established, and we've been using their software for several years now. Stable and robust and well-written.

I believe they have a "lite" version that is free, although I'm not sure of the details. We support so many lists that we have the heavy-duty kind of license.

Good luck finding what you need. :-)

[pcitizen.livejournal.com]

Yahoo Groups plus privoxy is a good solution. (You should be running Privoxy or a similar filter anyway, unless you like giving away your bandwidth for free.)

Yahoo's policy is to delete entire Groups if anyone, anywhere complains about the content. It doesn't sound as if this is likely to be a problem for your institute, though.