[AuckLUG] How does the aucklug email group work?

[Simon Green]

On 15/10/06, John Deverall <johnd at ablazesoftware.co.nz> wrote:
> A quick question to someone who I'm sure will know the answer.
>
> We also want to have control over the advertising with emails that goes out
> to the group for sponsorship reasons, as we figure we'd rather have any
> advertising revenue heading to us rather than yahoo.

This is probably more hassle than it is worth. You can use Google
AdWords for your website, but there is no equivalent (that I am aware
of) for mailing lists.

> Is there a free open source solution that we could use to replace our yahoo
> group?
>
> How does the linux users group do it?

Mailman is the most popular package used for mailing lists. It's
release under the GPL (thus FOSS). Their website is at
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html It's the software that
this, and most other mailing lists use.

  -- simon