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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Hosting for Online Discussion Groups

If the high majority of the members of your organization or community use the Internet, you may find online discussion groups helpful for hosting communication in between meetings.

Below is a list of some of the best discussion mailing list hosting options available today...

groups.yahoo.com
The standard that others compare against. Incudes many features such as polls, photos, calendar and more.

groups.google.com
Simple but useful features like comment voting and custom information pages.

npogroups.org
Hosted by a not-for-profit. Uses Sympa open source software with decent web archives.

jiglu.com (formally mailspaces.com)
A new hybrid wiki and mailing lists.

onlinegroups.net
Uses open source software modeled after Yahoo groups. Note there limits on the number of subscribers.

Suggest others in the comments below.

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