John Drescher wrote: >> For such people, like me, an email list >> means that my mailbox gets filled up every day with posts from people >> who have questions completely unrelated to how I use bacula. >> > > This is where gmail helps. The box never fills up and I generally do > not delete non spam email. Threading is much better than yahoo. > Ultimately, it will have to work with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange - my guess is that the majority of corporate types are using that. Personally, I'm using Outlook for my primary email account and Thunderbird for the secondary (since Outlook doesn't support secondary emails). >> With all that said, I think there already is an excellent solution >> available that solved all these problems: Yahoo Groups. OK, Open-Source >> purists probably don't like it because it's proprietary. Quite frankly, >> though, I have to say: "so what?" >> > Yuck. I really hate yahoo groups. Although I admit the biggest problem > is they require it to tie to a yahoo account. The problem with that is > my yahoo account (its a paid one / have to cancel) gets 1000 spam > messages per day. And I am not exaggerating. > Did you know that you don't have to use a Yahoo mail account? You can go into your Yahoo profile and add a second (and third and fourth) email address, and for each group separately specify which account you want the emails to be delivered to. You can also use any of these email addresses to post to the groups.
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