free mailing lists?

[gusl]

I want to create a mailing list for Summer School participants, that doesn't require people to sign up for a site like Yahoo. Does CMU give me permissions to do that?

Comments

[avani.livejournal.com]

Download mailman onto your own box?

(alternatively, google groups rocks ;-) )

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

My box isn't reliable, and neither is my home connection.

Does Google Groups require people to sign up for a Google account?

[avani.livejournal.com]

Does Google Groups require people to sign up for a Google account?

Nope. (They might require the creator to have one, but certainly not invitees)

http://groups.google.com

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

I sent an invitation to my CS.CMU account. The invitation said:

Access to the group on the web requires a Google Account. If you don't have a
Google Account set up yet, you'll first need to create an account before you
can access the group.

While I don't mind requiring that users have a Google account (or a Yahoo account), other people will be less willing to sign up.

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

Andrew-side has a mechanism for creating dlists. Mail to +dlist+~whoever/path/to/dlist@andrew.cmu.edu
and the mailer reads the file and sends everyone in the file the email. There's a syntax; look it up in the help files somewhere.

Users can't sub/unsub themselves, so you have to do that by hand.

[chrisamaphone]

i'm pretty sure andrew dlists can only list people with andrewids, also.

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

Not so -- it can take arbitrary email addresses.

[techstep.livejournal.com]

You can go to http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu and set up mailing lists that way, a far improvement from the old dlist system. Or at least, it appears that I can do this.