Listserv Services
March 5, 2024 9:43 AM   Subscribe

Please recommend me email listserv services to manage a group of 50-100 volunteers. Wishlist inside.

Ideally, this would:
1. Be super easy to sign up for. Wouldn't require anyone to make a separate account. Would allow me to add emails on the back end, but also allow people to sign themselves up with a link.
2. Allow people to self-serve in terms of managing subscriptions, frequency, etc.
3. Allow people (mainly me) to create simple emails within my gmail or protonmail account, not via a separate platform like mailchimp, etc.
4. be free? or cheap?

Google Groups is the backup option, but I'd like something more accessible to people who don't have a google account or use gmail.

Thanks!
posted by ambulanceambiance to Technology (6 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
Is this an announcement list (only specific people, e.g. you can post) or a discussion list (anyone who subscribes can post)? I ask because there are significantly more options for the former, and they send to be simpler to use for subscribers.
posted by caek at 10:07 AM on March 5


Groups.io
Our neighborhood association and Freecycle group use this platform. Seems to work well and has a free tier for up to 100 users. May want to spring for the next tier at $20/month.
posted by XtineHutch at 10:09 AM on March 5 [4 favorites]


Seconding groups.io
posted by nickggully at 10:25 AM on March 5


Response by poster: Is this an announcement list (only specific people, e.g. you can post) or a discussion list (anyone who subscribes can post)? I ask because there are significantly more options for the former, and they send to be simpler to use for subscribers.

That's a good question, and to be honest I haven't 100% decided. There may be times when a discussion format was helpful, but I'm leaning more toward an announcement list.
posted by ambulanceambiance at 10:34 AM on March 5


GNU Mailman still works and does everything well, if you've already got hosting. Groups.io is a no-brainer if you don't.
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 4:54 PM on March 5


Groups.io is great — many excellent services in addition to basic listserv (file storage, wiki) and my favorite was I paid $20 for one month to be a super admin, subscribed starter group of people manually. Then downgrade to free and it works swell.

Best mailing list tool I’ve ever used, and I’ve administered Mailman, Listserv, egroups, Google groups.
posted by Jesse the K at 4:55 PM on March 5 [2 favorites]


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