Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.list-admin.software,comp.answers,news.answers Path: news1.ucsd.edu!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news.cais.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!lios!edmonds From: edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds) Subject: comp.mail.misc Internet Mailing List Providers Followup-To: poster Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Sender: edmonds@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds) Organization: Gweep Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:00:11 GMT Supersedes: Message-ID: Summary: This posting lists a collection of people and companies on the Internet who offer mailing list services, either for profit, or as a public service. People who wish to start a mailing list but lack the local resources may wish to consult this listing. Expires: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 09:00:05 GMT Reply-To: edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Mailing List Providers FAQ Maintainer) Lines: 271 Xref: news1.ucsd.edu comp.mail.misc:21943 comp.mail.list-admin.software:1324 comp.answers:15618 news.answers:62325 Archive-name: mail/mailing-lists/providers Posting-frequency: monthly Last-modified: 1996/06/16 00:49:14 Version: 1.23 URL: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/usenet/ml-providers.txt ======================================================================== INTERNET MAILING LIST PROVIDERS $Revision: 1.23 $, $Date: 1996/06/16 00:49:14 $ Copyright (c) 1995, Brian Edmonds ======================================================================== Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Listserv lists 3. No-fee Providers 4. For-fee Providers ------------------------------ Subject: Introduction This list is maintained by Brian Edmonds . Please send all additions, corrections, and comments to this address. New entries and extra information from listed providers are especially welcome. This is a list of individuals, organizations and companies on the net who offer mailing list services, either for a fee, or as a service to the net community. If you wish to start a mailing list, please contact one or more of these services for more information. The list is posted on the eighth day of each month to the newsgroups comp.mail.misc, comp.mail.list-admin.software, comp.answers, and news.answers. It is also available from the following locations: - http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/usenet/ml-providers.txt - send email to majordomo@edmonds.home.cs.ubc.ca with the single line "get faq ml-providers.txt" in the body of the message The mailing list software FAQ is available by sending mail to listserv@listserv.net with "GET MLM-SOFTWARE FAQ" in the body of the message. The following people have helped out in the creation of this list (excluding providers and people associated with them): Norm Aleks Roger Burns Franz Hemmer ------------------------------ Subject: Listserv lists contributed by Roger Burns The most widely used mailing list software is Revised Listserv, developed by Eric Thomas of L-Soft. Over 200 sites run Listserv mailing list software at no charge to the list-owners, and many may be willing to sponsor a list for you *if* your proposed topic strikes their interest. To find a Listserv sponsor, write up a draft proposal which describes the list you'd like to create and mail it to LSTSRV-L@SEARN.SUNET.SE. Mention in your message that you don't usually follow those discussion groups, so could responses please be mailed to your private address. Please only submit your proposal *once*. If someone is willing to host your list, then you will hear back from him or her. Repeated proposals for the same topic are only likely to annoy the readers of the list and may make them less likely to want to take on new lists. For more detailed advice on this process, send the command GET NEW-LIST CREATE as an e-mail message to the address LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU. For general documents explaining Listserv, send the following commands as an e-mail address to LISTSERV@SEARN.SUNET.SE: GET LISTPRES MEMO GET LISTSERV REFCARD GET LISTSERV MEMO For documents about running Listserv lists, send the following commands to that same address: GET LISTOWNR MEMO GET LISTOWNR REFCARD GET LISTSERV TIPS GET LISTKEYW MEMO ------------------------------ Subject: No-fee Providers Organization: The Room With Nine Mirrors (nine.org) Contact: postmaster@nine.org or http://www.nine.org/ml/info.html Software: SmartList Status: free list support for certain topic areas The Room With Nine Mirrors is willing to provide mailing list services. If someone here finds the list topic interesting, we would run or assist to run the list at no cost. For topics of less interest to folks here, cost is negotiable, though we would prefer an exchange of skills or resources, not cash payments. Some topics known to be of interest to folks here include, but are certainly not limited to: social, cultural, and societal impacts of computing; cryptography; privacy; Celtic studies (language, art, culture, literature, etc.); social interaction; speculative fiction; alternate lifestyles; freedom of speech; night-shift work; music; working from home; computing networking in the home; travel; and many more. ------------------------------ Subject: For-fee Providers Company: Capital Area Internet Service (cais.com) Contact: support@cais.com or list@andrew.cais.com Software: SmartList/custom Status: for-fee service Company: Digital Marketing (digimark.net) Contact: info@digimark.net or http://www.digimark.net/ Software: majordomo Status: for-fee service Digital Marketing (DigiMark) offers a variety of value-added services to the Internet business community, including mailing lists and mailbots. We utilize Majordomo software for client-controlled listing and approval, and we support distributed mailing lists approval and moderation is handled off-site. Company: Internet Business Access Group Contact: Sales@ibag.com Software: Majordomo Status: for-fee service The Internet Business Access Group provides mailboxes and mailing list services (using Majordomo software) at the following rates: Mailboxes: $25.00 setup (up to 5 mailboxes), $7.50/month/mailbox Mailing Lists: $25.00 setup, $15.00/month or $10.00/month when paid in 12 month blocks. Majordomo allows remote administrators to have a high degree of control over the managment of the mailing list. Company: L-Soft International, Inc (lsoft.com) Contact: sales@lsoft.com or http://www.lsoft.com/ Software: LISTSERV Status: for-fee service L-Soft international Inc., the company that sells the authentic LISTSERV(TM) software for IBM mainframes, VMS, Unix, Windows NT and Windows 95, also operates the largest LISTSERV site in the world, with 1,600,000 daily deliveries (DEC95, weekday average). L-Soft offers a full range of list hosting services, from low-budget hobby lists (non-commercial use only) starting as low as $8.00/month, to high-profile personalized solutions for businesses, with five levels of list management assistance to choose from. There is also a bulk service for very large lists with infrequent postings. L-Soft currently (DEC95) operates lists as large as 110,000 subscribers and has the technology to host lists of 1,000,000 members with response times of 0.2 sec or less for typical administrative requests (ADD, SUBSCRIBE, SIGNOFF, etc). Note that L-Soft is not an ISP and does not sell shell accounts, only mailing lists. Company: North Star Technical Services (mystery.com) Contact: info@mystery.com Software: majordomo Status: for-fee service NSTS provides mailing list services using Majordomo software for $10/month or $100/year in advance. Majordomo allows remote administrators to have a high degree of control over the managment of the mailing list. Questions or comments can be sent to sales@mystery.com. Company: OnServices (MailCall.com) Contact: mailcall-info@mailcall.com or ray.daly@mailcall.com Status: for-fee service Software: custom Small mailing lists are our specialty, which we call MailCalls (tm). Families, girl scouts, clubs and sports fans use our service. We also provide autoresponse services (infobots) and cutomised services like email journals, diaries and catalogs. Internet mailing services are our only business. Unlike most companies, OnServices handles all of the administrative tasks for you. Small lists for as little as $20 per quarter after setup. Company: Rivertown.Net/Jar.Net Communications Ltd. Contact: support@rivertown.net Status: for-fee service Software: Smart-List (part of the Procmail package) Mailing lists provided for a $25 set up fee and $12.50 per month for up to 125 subscribers. Contact us for a custom quotation for larger lists. Prices scale up from 125 subscribers at the approximate rate of $0.10 per subscriber based upon peak monthly membership. Billed quarterly. Special arrangements available for not-for-profit groups. Company: Silverquick Communications Contact: sales@silverquick.com Status: for-fee service Software: NTList Silverquick Communications provide all forms of automated e-mail services, Mailing List Services, Auto-Responders, Document on Demand Servers, Electronic Newsletters. We try to offer a bespoke service and tailor the service to the customer needs. Our services are designed to pass as much control as is possible to the client. For many clients an important feature is the integration of automated email and WWW with the ability to perform tasks like joining or leaving lists, updating auto-responder contents, post messages to the list by completing a form on their own site. We can also use our list manager to perform specific tasks and projects on existing customer databases by e-mailing and segmenting responses to enabling better focused future mailings. We can host small or large lists so whatever you have in mind, please contact sales@silverquick.com if you would like to discuss our services. Company: SPENCER-DAVIS GROUP Contact: Robert_Kapela@spencer-davis.com or (360) 786-1501 Software: ListServ and ListProc Status: for-fee service The SPENCER-DAVIS GROUP is a leading provider of broadcast email, autoresponders, and mailing list hosting and administration services. If you would like more information about our services please visit our web page: http://www.spencer-davis.com/ Company: Warwick Baker & Fiore (warwick.com) Contact: habs@warwick.com or (212)941-4438 Software: MailWeir Status: for-fee service Warwick has a system where we can run your mailing list of almost any size for a flat yearly fee of $100 to $200; if you have a very small or very large list call us for a custom quote. This includes both discussion and distribution lists. Mailbots can be created for an additional project fee. We use the MailWeir list software. Non-profits should contact us for special consideration. We can support lists that are fee based, if you are charging for access to your list. Warwick Baker & Fiore is a full service Ad agency based in NYC's Soho district. We have been in business for over 50 years. We can provide a full range of Internet and traditional marketing and advertising services include direct mail, promotion, and national advertising. Company: Wharfedale Computers Contact: njh@smsltd.demon.co.uk Status: for-fee service Software: smoflist Included in the service: we provide publicity for the list, an archive of old articles, regular information to the list owner about new and lapsed users, WWW support and maintenance of the list. Company: xmission.com Contact: support@xmission.com or http://www.xmission.com Status: for-fee service Software: unknown We do provide mailing list services for a fee, (usually just the cost of an account with us) however, the setup is really something that we do after an account is set up with us. "Individual" account pricing: $19.00 per month, $17.00 per month for six months ($102) "Individual" account includes: UUCP mail/PPP/SLIP/CSLIP access for a single user Single user UUCP feed ------------------------------ .