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I used Google Groups for the Vermont Baseball Coaches Association. Works great ! From: Lucie deLaBruere <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: School Information Technology Discussion <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:05:01 -0400 To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Hosting listserv I've used Yahoo Groups, Google Groups and another called COOLLIST.com. Yahoo was quite a while ago, and every once in a while I get a rogue email from some yahoo group. Coollist is a free mail list service. I like its simplicity. You can embed it into a web page like I did here for a person family history project http://techsavvygirl.googlepages.com/news <http://techsavvygirl.googlepages.com/news> and all a user has to do is type in their email address and hit subscribe. The owner interface has some control for how you set it up. My favorite is Google Groups. I like the archive feature to you can go back and look at discussions. They have also added a 'file' feature and a 'page' feature that can be used to store documents useful to your group. You can sign up for a couple of education Google Groups at http://www.google.com/educators/index.html This page will give you an example of some of the features available. It's a small low activity group interested in Open Source http://groups.google.com/group/k12opensource/about (Note the Join this group) feature on the side. You can also elect to get posting in digest form and a few other formats. Lucie deLaBruere On 4/19/07, Steve Cavrak <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Bill Clark wrote: > > >> Perhaps some good "discussion" software ... Is blogging better ? >> >> >> >> Just looking for the easiest/inexpensive solution besides email for people >> >> to discuss a common topic... > > > Two easy to use alternatives are > > > > - google groups > > - yahoo groups > > > > -- Lucie deLaBruere www.LearningWithLucie.com <http://www.LearningWithLucie.com> Work: 802 527 0565 x 3206 Cell: 802 752 6086 [log in to unmask]