Nate, Many ISP's offer you mailman (or similar) as a service as part of the domain hosting package . Otherwise you're looking at spam laden "free" services like yahoo groups Rich wrote: > > > A) Yahoo or Google groups are a service > > B) ListServ and MajorDomo are software you (or someone) run on a > servers you (or they control) and offer you (the list master) > service on -- also Listserv runs on a mainframe (or did since it is > one of the oldest list manager) > And both the publisher and others run services using both those. > > As for ads, that is a function of the service and if they charge or > are free. > > And a further note, the Hidden-tech list runs using Mailman, which we > have integrated with the user profile > system - which is software (B above) and there are people who run > services running mailman. > > Rich > > Nate Bartlett wrote: >> Hi folks, >> I've been looking for a product similar to Yahoo! or Google Groups. >> Also like ListServ, or Majordomo, but newer and with intuitive, clean >> GUI. I don't want ads, but anything anyone could inform me about >> would be great! >> Thanks, >> >> Nate Bartlett >> Teltrab Computer Consulting > -- Thank you, Matt Lampiasi, President Florence I.T. - A Community IT shop. On the web @ florenceit.net <http://florenceit.net> or 413-303-9167 checkout the new yahoo green <http://green.yahoo.com> pages! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20071009/e0e2995b/attachment-0006.html