RE: Mailing List Services (FREE Prefered)

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter,

I've moderated a Yahoo list for my church for a few years now and am very
happy with it.  It was easy to set up and requires next to no effort on my
part.  You can set it up by invitation only so that it is limited to only
those who are associated with your congregation.  I just looked through some
archived messages; text email generally has no advertisements, just a little
footer about abiding by the yahoo rules.  HTML email does have small ads
appended.  If you make sure that you define your list within Yahoo's
religious communities, you will find that the ads are generally inoffensive
and of a religious nature.  We've had no debt consolidation or anatomy
enlargement whatsoever.

It has worked well for me and we've had no need to purchase any services
from Yahoo in order to run the list.  We're not all that active but every
message for the last few years is still archived on their web site.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse