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January 13, 2009

How to Set up a Mailman Listserv Hosting Provider

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by David Strom

If you want to run a mailing list of several hundred to several thousand recipients, the best software that I have found is Mailman, which runs on Linux and Unix. There are several hosting providers that offer Mailman services, and the one that I use is from EMWD.com. They charge $4 a month per list plus a $10 startup fee, and don’t require anything for their services other than that you have access to your own domain name. It takes just a few minutes to sign up for their service.
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January 8, 2009

How to Choose the Right E-mail List Service Provider

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by David Strom

Ever wanted to send out emails to a bunch of people at once and tried to use Outlook or some other desktop email program to do it? The process may seem simple, until you start get messages that are returned because the addresses are old, or worse when someone replies to your entire list by mistake. Plus, using your desktop email program means you have to assemble the various collections of email addresses manually, and sometimes you can mess up.

There are also situations where sometimes you forget and put your entire list in the “To” field of your message, and invariably one of your recipients hits “reply all” and sends their reply to your entire list. That isn’t good!
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January 1, 2009

Receiving E-mail Without a Computer

Filed under: e-mail,Internet — Tags: — admin @ 5:00 pm

by Gabe Goldberg

If you’ve ever wondered how to bring email to the techno-phobe in your life, the answer isn’t Abracadabra. It’s Presto.

If you’re reading this online, you own or have access to a computer. But you likely have friends or relatives — perhaps elderly, budget-restricted or technophobic — who don’t. So they’re not in close touch and can’t share online family or community activities.

Presto is a combination color inkjet printer and paid Web-based service which allows people without computers to receive email, including attachments. (more…)

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