I've no experience of setting up and administering a list server, so I've not familiar with what's available. So I haven't found a server (if one exist) that will do what I want.
I'd like to set-up a list server to make the inter-member communications of a small artists' group easier. What I want is somewhere between a distribution list and a mailing as defined on Wikipedia.
Group membership (non-electronic) entitles membership of the mailing list (provided of course that they have an email address, not all of them do). I'm dealing with a non-technical audience who can generally only do basic operations in their mail-clients.
Obviously, I don't need or want the subscribe or unsubscribe, I'll administer membership of the list. But these features it would seem are a fixed part of the mailing -list model.
What I do want, however, is a list server that provides the ability to send to one address deliver to many. Which would be useful as there are several sub-groups of people.
So for example we could have:
everyone@myartistgroup.org
subgroup1@myartistgroup.org
subgroup2@myartistgroup.org
etc...
That would be easier than getting everyone setup and sync contact lists in their mail-clients -- sounds like an almost impossible challenge to me
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Maybe I'm asking too much? I don't know. I'd grateful to hear from anyone who has any FOSS solutions that'll run on LAMP. As of yet, there isn't any CMS for the website, so CMS-based solutions are out, I'm afraid. Actually, I want to keep this mailing system implemented separately from any CMS, well, that's my thinking at the moment anyway.
Thanks,
clif2
I'd like to set-up a list server to make the inter-member communications of a small artists' group easier. What I want is somewhere between a distribution list and a mailing as defined on Wikipedia.
Group membership (non-electronic) entitles membership of the mailing list (provided of course that they have an email address, not all of them do). I'm dealing with a non-technical audience who can generally only do basic operations in their mail-clients.
Obviously, I don't need or want the subscribe or unsubscribe, I'll administer membership of the list. But these features it would seem are a fixed part of the mailing -list model.
What I do want, however, is a list server that provides the ability to send to one address deliver to many. Which would be useful as there are several sub-groups of people.
So for example we could have:
everyone@myartistgroup.org
subgroup1@myartistgroup.org
subgroup2@myartistgroup.org
etc...
That would be easier than getting everyone setup and sync contact lists in their mail-clients -- sounds like an almost impossible challenge to me
.Maybe I'm asking too much? I don't know. I'd grateful to hear from anyone who has any FOSS solutions that'll run on LAMP. As of yet, there isn't any CMS for the website, so CMS-based solutions are out, I'm afraid. Actually, I want to keep this mailing system implemented separately from any CMS, well, that's my thinking at the moment anyway.
Thanks,
clif2
