[Hidden-tech] Is there a way to set up address books and easily mail to them in GMail?

Val Nelson val at valnelson.com
Wed Apr 22 15:02:45 EDT 2015


Shel,
I agree with Robert.

And if you still need to set up "address books" in Gmail, just use groups
in your Contacts list. Move people to a group and then you can email that
whole group by entering the group name in the To: line. People can be in
more than one group, just like a tag.

Big group emails often go to spam. I hear that keeping it to 10 at a time
is a safe bet.

Val



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On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> At Wed, 22 Apr 2015 08:42:13 -0400 Shel Horowitz <
> shel at principledprofit.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Until a few months ago, I frequently sent out eblasts to groups of
> people:
> > humor, progressive politics, western Mass events. Then I was forced to
> stop
> > using Eudora.
> >
> > These days, I'm primarily using GMail but I haven't found a way to e.g.,
> > mail something to my Western MA list. I've set a couple of the lists up
> in
> > Outlook, but I really hate using Outlook because anything in the inbox
> > becomes an individual document that shows up when I search for documents
> in
> > the Finder (vastly decreasing the utility of search), because it
> generates
> > constant annoying error messages, and because it needs me to re-enter my
> > password frequently. So I am only loading the program when I absolutely
> > have to send a bulk mail, but then each time, another 500 emails become
> > searchable in the Finder.
> >
> > Surely there must be a way to set up address books in GMail.
> > Anyone know it?
>
> I'm going to suggest something different: a server-based mailing list
> (typically using a program like Mailman), rather than a mailing list on
> your
> 'local disk' (or in this case in your *private* (?) space on google as
> part of
> your GMail account -- in this instance it is functionally equivalent).
>
> There are several important advantages here:
>
> 1) [Probably the most important one] list serve software (like Mailman)
> allow
> the members of the list to unsubscribe to the posts, on their own without
> any
> effort on your part.  (You can also set it up so new people can subscribe
> on
> their own.)
>
> 2) Only *1* copy of the post is stored in your local mail folders (eg in
> your
> Sent folder).  There is (optionaly) ALSO a copy on the list server in the
> archives (which can be public or private).
>
> 3) List serve programs like Mailman will be E-Mail bandwidth 'friendly' and
> will send the 'blast' to a limited number of receipents at a time and
> handle
> all of the scheduling and queing automagically.  Also *you* are only
> sending
> *1* message to the list serve address and the list serve program takes
> care of
> delivering messages and will deal with broken e-mail message (bounces).
>
> I don't know if Google provides a generic E-Mail list serve service. Yahoo
> does [YahooGroups] (but I would NOT recomend Yahoo). There are other
> providers
> free or otherwise (Deepwoods Software is a low-cost provider: $2.50/month
> per
> list). While most of the time these E-Mail list serves are 'bi-directional'
> (all subscribers can post), it is possible to set up an E-Mail list serve
> to
> only let selected persons to post (usually the owner, but the owner can
> delegate posting rights as he/she sees fit).
>
> >
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