Chip McDonald Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 Has anyone done this? I need one for my students and former students, and also one for "friends and associates", since my life is getting really out of hand I'm sort of losing track with people. I'd like to do this in Eudora somehow, or some way that does not involve spam... My time at the moment is extremely compressed, and while I know I could figure it out given enough expenditure of said time - I don't have the time. Sooo.... Suggestions anyone? Thanks Guitar Lessons in Augusta Georgia: www.chipmcdonald.com Eccentric blog: https://chipmcdonaldblog.blogspot.com/ / "big ass windbag" - Bruce Swedien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael saulnier Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 I'm a long time Eudora user and have several mailing lists I maintain for my business. Eudora has the ability to create "groups" in the address book. This is very easy to do, only involves entering the e-mail once per person... then when you want to e-mail, you select the group name from a list, and it sends your e-mail to everyone on it. If someone wants out or changes their address, you simply change the entry in the address book and you're set. This is NOT automated, but I'm not sure if you would need that since your list size is probably fairly easy to manage and edit? Let me know if you need "specifics" on a step by step way of doing this... it's easy! guitplayer I'm still "guitplayer"! Check out my music if you like... http://www.michaelsaulnier.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael saulnier Posted January 29, 2003 Share Posted January 29, 2003 Here's the step-by-step... Adding a Group to the Address Book You can set up a group as an address book entry by adding the groups email addresses or nicknames (if already set up in your address book) in the Personal dialog box. To create a new group in an address book, do the following: 1. From the Tools menu, choose Address Book, or press Ctrl + L. Or, if the Address Book is in an inactive window in an open tabbed window group, click its tab. 2. In the Address Book, choose which address book (if more than one is set up) in which you want this group's information listed. Click New. 3. Type the nickname in the Nickname text field on the right side of the window, for example "My buddies." The nickname entry appears in the list, and you can now add information for this entry. 4. When finished, click anywhere or press Enter and the nickname appears in the list. 5. Click the Personal tab. The Personal dialog box appears. In the Full Name field, type the a descriptive or an informal name for the group. This name is included in the "To" field for your recipient to see. 6. In the This nickname will expand to the following addresses text field, type the complete email address for each person included in the group. Separate multiple addresses with commas or carriage returns (this is the only place you can use a carriage return to separate addresses). You can also use nicknames in this field, but be sure that any nicknames you use are defined by their own entry. You can use a mixture of nicknames and complete email addresses. Make sure this field contains no other information except addresses and nicknames, or your messages will be addressed incorrectly. 7. If you want to put this group on your recipient list, check the Recipient List box. The groups name is bolded in the address book list. - A couple of obvious tips... - If you paste the group name into the "To:" field, you'll be sending the addresses of some or all of the members to everyone. This may upset someone... the solution is to paste the "group" into the "bcc:" field which "blind cc's" each person and doesn't show all the other addresses. guitplayer I'm still "guitplayer"! Check out my music if you like... http://www.michaelsaulnier.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip McDonald Posted January 30, 2003 Author Share Posted January 30, 2003 Hey guitplayer, thanks... The only thing is I need it to sorta be two-way... I know I can filter incoming mail into a mailbox, but I'd like it to be automatically co-catenated into one "digest" I can send out everyday, so that for instance if a student wants to reschedule they could email the list and see if anyone wants to trade their time slots.. that kind of thing, because I've got 55+ students right now and I can't afford a secretary.. I'm going bonkers trying to keep on top of it... and it would be useful to have a simple way of letting them sort of interact with each other as well.. "?" Has anyone used coolist.com? Thanks again gplayer... Guitar Lessons in Augusta Georgia: www.chipmcdonald.com Eccentric blog: https://chipmcdonaldblog.blogspot.com/ / "big ass windbag" - Bruce Swedien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mats Olsson. Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 I believe that Yahoo have a pretty good mail list service. /Mats http://www.lexam.net/peter/carnut/man.gif What do we want? Procrastination! When do we want it? Later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael saulnier Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Chip, Mats is right. Both yahoo, and microsoft, (through MSN) have "groups" that you can create the allow you to start and operate mailing list pretty much hands off once you set them up. The "founder" (you) of the group can control access or allow people to sign up automatically, and group members can receive all the messages that others send. Keep in mind that in this model, no one sends a private message to any one other person, they send one that everyone on the list gets. If I remember, it's free and pretty easy to setup and use. You might actually do both things. Have a mailing list that only you maintain to send certain messages to anyone or everyone... and a group that everyone can participate in... One other idea. I don't know if you're aware that the software that runs this forum has a free version. If you ran this on your website, as the administrator and moderator, you could control access through passwords and even create a bit of a community of your students... Who knows maybe even some of us would come and join in!!! Good luck. guitplayer I'm still "guitplayer"! Check out my music if you like... http://www.michaelsaulnier.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chip McDonald Posted January 31, 2003 Author Share Posted January 31, 2003 [quote]Originally posted by guitplayer: [b] I don't know if you're aware that the software that runs this forum has a free version. If you ran this on your website, as the administrator and moderator, you could control access through passwords and even create a bit of a community of your students... Who knows maybe even some of us would come and join in!!! [/b][/quote]Hmm, good idea... I don't know if I could spring for the web hosting, I'm sure it could probably be done for free but it seems hoop-jumping has become my number #1 pastime at the moment.... Guitar Lessons in Augusta Georgia: www.chipmcdonald.com Eccentric blog: https://chipmcdonaldblog.blogspot.com/ / "big ass windbag" - Bruce Swedien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salyphus Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 There are tons of free resources out there if you have access to running things like Perl, PHP, MySQL, etc, and they aren't really that difficult to set up. Here are a few to check out: -- phpBB - http://www.phpbb.com A great free forum with loads of features. Lot's of hacks available. Well supported. Invision Board - http://www.ibforums.com Seems to be a very good forum, fanatical support and easy install. XMB Forum - http://www.xmbforum.com/home A free web-based bulletin board system written in PHP with a mySQL backend. Here are a bunch of Mailing List scripts: http://www.devscripts.com/category.php?stId=239 -- If you need a cheap low volume hosting package to run this stuff on and help setting it up, I could hook you up. If you already have hosting somewhere they can probably help you get up and running. Hope this helps :thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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