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One of their replacement service suggestions is https://fiesta.cc https://fiesta.cc. It looks nice but it's totally free -- I get nervous when there is not a cl

by masnick 13y ago

One of their replacement service suggestions is https://fiesta.cc https://fiesta.cc. It looks nice but it's totally free -- I get nervous when there is not a clear business model. (It was almost shut down a year ago according to their blog: http://blog.fiesta.cc. http://blog.fiesta.cc.) Another suggestion is http://www.mail-list.com http://www.mail-list.com. They charge around $1/user/year, which seems pretty reasonable to me (one reason I didn't sign up for Breeze is that $25 seemed like a lot for a lot of use cases, like a list for a season-long sports team). But in the fine print, it says the minimum is a $99 purchase per organization per year. Their final suggestion is http://www.emaildodo.com http://www.emaildodo.com. Call me a snob, but the late 90s design scared me off. So none of these seem like great options -- I'd rather use http://librelist.com http://librelist.com, which is run as a free for-the-good-of-the-internet service from what I can tell. Assuming Google and Yahoo Groups are too heavy-handed for a simple mailing list, what do you use? Any experience with these?

jmharvey 13y ago
If you're looking for another alternative, we're building http://zeromailer.com http://zeromailer.com . It's still in active development, but the core "just let me make a simple mailing list" is there. Pricing model is that lists with fewer than 1000 messages[1] per month are free, and higher traffic lists basically pay by volume. We also have a couple of premium features (e.g. custom domains) that we're upcharging for. I'd love to hear what you think of it, and what you think we can do better. Oh, and I've always liked being able to administer mailing lists from the command line, so we've got a command line interface in testing, ping me if you'd like to check it out. [1] messages = total volume of mail, so basically (emails * list members)
AlexeyMK 13y ago
Re: Fiesta.cc - we're on it. Ping me (alexey at username dot com) if you'd like to be in the beta for paid corporate email accounts, and I'd be happy to help you out!

by masnick 13y ago

jmharvey 13y ago

If you're looking for another alternative, we're building http://zeromailer.com http://zeromailer.com . It's still in active development, but the core "just let me make a simple mailing list" is there. Pricing model is that lists with fewer than 1000 messages[1] per month are free, and higher traffic lists basically pay by volume. We also have a couple of premium features (e.g. custom domains) that we're upcharging for. I'd love to hear what you think of it, and what you think we can do better. Oh, and I've always liked being able to administer mailing lists from the command line, so we've got a command line interface in testing, ping me if you'd like to check it out. [1] messages = total volume of mail, so basically (emails * list members)

AlexeyMK 13y ago

Re: Fiesta.cc - we're on it. Ping me (alexey at username dot com) if you'd like to be in the beta for paid corporate email accounts, and I'd be happy to help you out!