From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Sep 30 22:00:09 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id VAA08420 for britdisc-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:42:54 +0100 (BST) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08415 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:42:53 +0100 (BST) Received: from [158.152.248.177] (helo=phidelta.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.03 #1) id 0zOT5F-00062T-00; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 20:42:50 +0000 Message-ID: <nsC7zDAnZpE2Ew2G@phidelta.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:36:55 +0100 To: BritDisc <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>, Merrick Cardew <merrick.cardew@g4tech.co.uk> From: Wayne Retter <wayne@phidelta.demon.co.uk> Subject: Mailing lists MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Trial Version 3.04 <pjZRgFWDsQK5ViyP$l4rxVrb6a> Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk For those of you who're maybe interesed in starting team mailing lists (if uni can't do one for you), try www.egroups.com, for FREE Here's a few of their features. Wayne Retter PS: Honest, this isn't meat to be spam, but is a service I've found useful... ------- Forwarded message follows ------- SPAM-FREE. eGroups.com features both an e-mail address protector that ensures the addresses of group members aren't divulged to spammers, as well as a special spam detector that recognizes spam before it's distributed to group members. Such messages are sent to the group moderator only, who can decide whether to forward it to the group. MEMBERSHIP LISTING FOR PRIVATE GROUPS. Members can now view the profiles of others in a private group. The group moderator can also set the group policy to have no membership listing. The listing only provides pseudonymous handles and personal info that members chose to provide. Note: If you do *not* want your group's members to be visible to each other in this way, you must go to your list now and set this policy at http://www.egroups.com/. [No membership information will be given out to non-members.] DUPLICATE MESSAGE DETECTOR. eGroups.com automatically detects and eliminates duplicate messages. For example, if a group member is on vacation and has an autoresponder set up, these multiple messages will not be posted. PERSONAL PROFILE. Users can enter and edit their personal information such as telephone, occupation, and other contact information, and share them with the other members of their groups. Users can determine who can see this information by group, and also set preferences on how they want to receive messages. POLLING. You can send a structured message to group members, asking who wants which sandwich for lunch or who can come to a party at which time. The results are automatically collected and presented to you. UNIFIED "WHAT'S NEW" PAGE. You are notified what new messages there are across a whole set of groups. You can also see how many moderation requests there are, if any. WEB-BASED MODERATION. You can approve new subscriptions and moderate messages with a click of a mouse in our new Web-based moderation interface. UNIFIED SUBSCRIPTION MANAGEMENT PAGE. Users can manage all of their subscriptions on the Web -- even for lists that are not hosted by FindMail! You don't have the hassle of having to find out how to unsubscribe from such e-mail lists; you can do it all from eGroups.com. SHARED FOLDERS. You can easily file messages and share them with others in a shared folder system, associated with each e-mail group. NO-ADS OPTION. As you know, FindMail uses advertising income to offset the costs associated with our services. Several people have asked us for a version of our service that won't show ads on e-mail messages. So we're now offering this option: For $4.95 a month, we will not insert third-party ads into messages of your group. Go to http://www.egroups.com/info/noAds.html to select this option. PERFORMANCE. We've also transitioned our infrastructure to a fully scalable architecture. We're now delivering 95% of the e-mail messages in less than 5 seconds -- and it turns out the remaining 5% are often due to problems at the receiving site. We'd appreciate your feedback on our new eGroups.com service. Please go to http://www.egroups.com, check it out, and tell us what you think. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Retter at home: 0181-663-4856 wayne@phidelta.demon.co.uk mobile: 07970-903420 at work: 01737-273611 wayne_retter@watsonwyatt.co.uk