Thanks all, most useful!
Mike
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Anjanesh Babu wrote:
> I have been told that the Central IT at Oxford University use Sympa to drive all our discussion lists .
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> https://www.sympa.org/
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> Though not hosted it does fit all the requirements and has no performance bottlenecks.
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> How about Discourse? https://www.discourse.org/<https://www.discourse.org/> as used on http://culturaldigital.com<http://culturaldigital.com/>.
> Seems to work pretty smoothly to me - sure Chris Unitt could tell you more.
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>> On 2 Oct 2015, at 10:52 am, Mike Ellis<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi all
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>> I'm coming to the conclusion after some Googling that there are really limited options for (preferably hosted) discussion list software. In fact, I can't find any options at all that are likely to work on a shared host - I am guessing that this is because incoming email is kinda hard to do well?
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>> So if I wanted to set up a discussion list it seems my options are Google (not massively keen, reliance on having a Google Account to get at quite a lot of the stuff) or JISCMail (I think one needs to have academic connections to make this happen?)...
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>> Any other thoughts / ideas?
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>> (Note btw - not mailing list but discussion list - as in this one, so that anyone can reply...)
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>> cheers
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>> Mike
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