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How To Start: The Mailing List



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Title: Setting up a Mailing List

Setting up a Mailing List

The mailing list is where the project's action takes place. Here plans and decisions are made, designs are discussed - everything important happens here. The mailing list is every (distributed) project's main home. To put it short: You need one.

Mailing List Hosting

Perhaps the best way to set up a mailing list is to ask your web host about it. All hosting services (well, at least those not solely targeted towards Joe and Jane user) also offer mailing list hosting.

Things to consider

Fortunately a mailing list setup is a relatively simple thing, there is not much that can go wrong and there are only a few "optional features" to care about: