Hello, I was wondering if you can assist me in finding some good
emailing list softwares. We need something where people can join our
mailing list from our website (just like other sites) and have some
software where we can make an HTML or something nice as a newsletter
and email it to all the subscribers.

Thanks alot, you guys are great!

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Request for Question Clarification by ephraim-ga on 11 Aug 2004 11:45 PDT

How much technical expertise do you have? Much of what I know about
requires at least some familiarity with how e-mail works on the
internet. Are you looking for a Windows- or Unix-based solution?

For $3, I will not walk you through a solution, though I would be more
than happy to point you at a number of products which will manage
mailing lists. An HTML-front end should not be that hard for somebody
with basic scripting skills to write and plug into the mailing list
manager software.

/ephraim

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Clarification of Question by curious1233-ga on 11 Aug 2004 12:08 PDT

i am pretty techy (am a System Admin) but not really into programming or web dev.

if you could tell me some good softwares at good prices that would be great

A decent mailing list manager is GNU Mailman, which is free. You can
get more information at [ http://www.list.org/ ].

To see an implementation of this, look at [
http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe/ ]. Use your "view page as
source" option in your web browser to see how this is implemented
inside of the web page. From what I saw, it looks pretty simple to set
up. Also, be aware that Politech is a VERY high traffic list with many
subscribers, so this solution should probably scale well.

Another free mailing list software page can be found at [
http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/ ]. Majordomo was once the
standard by which I personally managed a number of lists, though it
looks like Mailman may be better at this point in time.

Some other software would be:

LISTSERV -- this was once the gold standard. This is not freeware, but
for small mailing lists, you can use the product for free.
[ http://www.lsoft.com/products/default.asp?item=listserv ]

EZMLM
[ http://www.developerfocus.com/projects/ezmeister/ ]

Finally, here's a list of many types of mailing list software
products, not all of them free.
[ http://www.spamliquidator.com/directory/mailing-list-software.html ]

Search Strategy:

"mailing list software" + "open source"
[ ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=%22mailing+list+software%22+%22open+source%22&btnG=Search
]

I hope this helps!

/ephraim

Great, so fast and got the info i needed with good explaination
Thanks